We are awesome! In praise of teachers and all that they do!

            What are some things that we as a school community do well? I'm going to answer that question for teachers. As far as I'm concerned, we teachers are the ones who are doing well. If we think about all the people who make up our school community on the national and local level, there are a few subgroups within this large community toward which we would like to point the finger of blame.  But don't even try to point it at the teachers, please, because you won't get very far with me. Teachers are the ones who are doing the greatest things for kids and for their educational instruction. Amidst all the chaos of testing, standardization, globalization, digitization and the like, teachers are the first ones to do the following amazing things: we constantly revise and question. We change, we flex and we adapt when we have to. We do embrace a reach for the stars attitude in all that we do, and we inspire greatly. Need I say more? If we didn't, we wouldn't  remain the dedicated professionals that we are.