Scrolling through Twitter, I came across an interesting Tweet from a former colleague and mentor that seemed to sum up some of my recent thinking about education in our province. As someone who is both immensely proud of teaching in Alberta, and someone who has been to several conferences over the past several years (both locally and internationally), one thing remains abundantly clear – Alberta teachers are respected, world leaders in education.
One prominent international researcher, Pasi Sahlberg, has been at the fore of identifying the excellence of teaching and learning in our province. In presentations in Alberta, Sahlberg has pointed out Alberta’s standing based on the OECD PISA results. In the 2015 PISA results (the most current published results, with the 2018 results expected to be available beginning December), Canada and Alberta’s worldwide rankings are as follows:
I don’t mention these results to debate the merits of standardized testing, or the legitimacy of OECD or PISA, but to rather to provide context that there is data to support the “eye test”. I have engaged with international visitors who have come to ULead, an Alberta-led education conference, to learn from and with Alberta educators. I have also had the pleasure of hosting and envoy of educational leaders from Singapore (a country that routinely ranks at the top of PISA) who came specially to the Calgary Board of Education to tour our schools in action. They are coming to our province to see the things we’re doing right, and there is plenty to see. What many might not know is that Alberta Teachers are designers of curriculum, not merely deliverers of curriculum. Sounds like a subtle difference, but it’s not. In Alberta, teachers work with a series of curricular outcomes set forward in the Alberta Programs of Study. From there they organize them in sequential, patterned ways, always mindful of “hooks” that will ensure engaged learning throughout the series of planned sub-tasks and accompanying assessments. The design also allows for personalized learning to accommodate different learning styles, and inclusive accommodations for students with mild/moderate and complex learning and social/emotional needs. Published results for Fish Creek School tell only part of the story of our teachers and their students. What you see in our Provincial Achievement Test results is the culmination of years of hard work by our entire staff – to a person. Literacy and ELL support and intervention starts in kindergarten through collaboration with teachers and the joint CBE Early Learning Team, and continues through the grades with allocated supports organized and managed at the school level. Included along with the daily work of our teachers is the delicate dance of assisting in management of the well-being of our students. Emotional considerations such as anxiety, stress, and managing peer relations are all taking place within real time under the impact of an ever-expanding digital influence. With all of these considerations, Fish Creek School and Alberta teachers continue to set the standard for education on the world stage. JFK famously said “children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future” and we can all agree on this. As the sun rises on a new day, it’s important to recognize that the work that Alberta teachers are doing is ensuring that our most valuable resource is set up for success. Let’s ensure we keep our collective focus on our most important Provincial asset – Education.
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The best school year ever starts with the best first day ever. The first day is always exciting for everyone. From a principal perspective, having seen the hours and hours of preparation by the teachers getting ready for the big day, the energy level is high. We’re all excited to see our students and families again.
As a parent, I know how it feels to send a child back. While there is some sense like “yes, it’s time to go back”, there is also a little sadness after breaking things up after a fun summer together. As adults, we can feel the anxious about the year to come, so it’s no doubt that our children can become anxious too as they take cues from us. For our students, the first day back can be a mixed bag of emotion. We see it all on this day – from happiness to tears, it’s all there. To help minimize emotions, here are some recommendations for little things to do to ensure the first day goes as well as possible:
Of course, there are countless other logistical and practical things parents need to do before their children go back to school, and it’s a busy time in the house to be sure. If, in all the busyness of the preparations you might be able to make use these suggestions I am confident they will benefit in an even smoother first day back. Here’s to the best school year ever! This week, I had the chance to catch up with a former colleague who is also a current principal. We had the pleasure of working together at the start of my career at a very complex elementary school. When I say complex, I mean that the range of student need was both varied and significant. It’s that school where some kids would not necessarily come to school having had breakfast, or perhaps even a lunch in tow. Learning needs were almost secondary to basic needs, but we were a great staff who worked hard to make a difference, and I think we did.
When we get together, we have many stories to share about our teaching and learning experiences. There are many fond memories and a few laughs to be sure. However, the one thing that we always seem to come back and bond most over is our animosity, fear, respect, and love for our former principal. To be clear, I did use all four of those descriptors together. If you’re scratching your head, here’s how that works. The feelings of animosity were usually pretty easy to see and probably feel. Late and long staff meetings and professional learning sessions (we would do after-school meetings on both Tuesdays and Thursdays, and they would often go past 5:00) after an already long day of teaching will do that pretty quick. In those moments, we all had the right answers and all her decisions were simply wrong. As a beginning, wrongfully confident teacher, I wasn’t too sure of what to make of it all, but I remember putting in really long days and thinking about work a lot. You for sure did not want to be that teacher in the staff meeting who didn’t get their “homework” done, and you needed to be darn sure you had something to share. There was a lot of grumbling, but in the end, we were always active (some more than others) participants. During one casual pop-in, my principal dropped this on me: “Hey Ian, can I see you after school? And bring your planning and assessment with you.” I have talked about this moment before as my career-defining moment. This was not uncommon – my colleagues had told me about their encounters – but that simple interaction struck instant fear, and those 3 or 4 hours before the end of the day were some of the longest moments of my life. I can still see and hear the tick-tock of the clock as the moments slowly passed. When the day was over, I collected my things and headed to the office for our meeting. Thankfully, I felt like I had some of the right stuff. I know for sure that I has something more than nothing, but I just wasn’t sure why she had asked for it. In the end, the meeting was very positive, and she encouraged to take my first steps from a relationship-based professional to a master teacher. She paired me with another colleague who had some great assessment strategies and I took it all in. To shorten a much longer story, I learned from it, took the advice, and soon became an area lead teacher in assessment. As I settled into my new position, and started to pass along some of my freshly adopted learning to others, I found myself more and more reflecting on where I had come. In those moments, I started to wonder just what would have happened to me if my principal had not cared enough to ask that question of me that day, or paired me up with a trusted colleague. I realized that upon reflection and departing the school that I had developed feelings of respect for my former principal, and for what I had encountered. Coming back to my recent meet-up with my former colleague, we always end our reminiscing and come quickly to the realization that six of the teachers on staff at that complex school had gone on to become principals or system leaders. The hours of staff meetings, professional learning, and hard questions had paid off. At this point, none of the grumbling means a thing and respect and admiration turn to love. Love for each other, the experiences, the hours of hard work and even more hours spent worrying, and perhaps more than anything, love for the principal who had the courage to take us to places we didn’t know we needed to go. On the off-chance that I run into my former principal, I always tell her about these stories and some of these feelings and she always laughs. She thinks it’s funny that I look so deeply at things and always says things like “oh Ian, I was just doing my job”. Whereas I find myself using the conversation to try and draw more wisdom for my own use, she is more interested in my kids and family, how coaching is going, and the state of my golf game. Ultimately, my message to my colleagues, teachers experienced and new, is that sometimes you might now know what is happening in the moment, but if you are open to learning, trust the process and believe in your leadership, something wonderful just might happen. You just might not realize it until years later. One of the things that I admire most about our profession is that teachers deliver day after day in an environment where they have to be always at the top of their game. The consequences of their actions and words are always impactful and they literally have the ability to change the lives of their students.
______________________ I loved sports and in high school I quickly became the prototypical gym rat. I got up early and got to school when it opened, often asking the janitor to turn on the gym lights so I could shoot some hoops. The trouble was that I really wasn’t that good. My initial technique was to throw the ball in a two-handed overhead motion toward the hoop (picture a soccer throw in). I didn’t know any better, but I practiced so much that I actually got pretty good at it. The right kind of difference came one morning when one of our PE teachers approached me in the gym. I had come to know him a bit as both a teacher and coach and he would always say hello to me in the morning when he got in. On this particular morning, he approached me and said something like: “Listen, I see you in here every morning shooting hoops, and you’re driving me crazy. You’re not even doing it right. I need to show you how to do this.” From there, he took the time to show me the correct shooting technique – bend the knees, set ball in the right hand, bend the elbow, push upward as you rise with your legs, release with a bit of backspin, and finish with the wrist. I would imagine the whole exchange took less than five minutes, but it was all I needed. I would like to say I went on to become a high school basketball star, but I didn’t. I did manage to play on our teams, but I did grow into a really good shooter, and it made playing the game a lot more fun. I still remember that exchange, and remain thankful for the time that my PE teacher took with me. Much like basketball, I had a similar academic profile. I was no report card all-star, but I did ok. I worked hard and knew the content of what we were learning about in class. When I was in high school in Ontario they had just eliminated the mandatory grade 13 year. In the transition, students who required upgrades or OACs (Ontario Academic Credits) to attend University, often needed to come back for an informal “grade 13” year. As a result, if you were in an OAC class, you were there because you had sights on University. Much like it is now, University acceptance was a competitive game. You needed good to great marks. Like me, many students scanned the course options and looked for those courses that could get you the grades you needed, but also offset the intense rigor of core courses like Language Arts, Mathematics, or Sciences. Courses like drama and fine arts were fun and easily favourites of many of my fellow students. A new course, Art History and Appreciation, appeared among the selections and I decided to give that one a shot. This Art History teacher was a long-serving staff member at the school - late 40s or 50s, short, stalky, and bald. He was a serious teacher who taught the most difficult math courses in the school almost exclusively. He was passionate about the subject matter, and expected a lot of his students. I had heard he was very strict and was notorious for assigning homework and holding students accountable. He always wore the stereotypical sport coat with the elbow patches, and would wear his glasses low on his nose. He could hold a stare that could do his talking for him, and it was icy. In short, he was the most intense teacher I would ever know. To say I was intimidated walking into the class would be an understatement. The wrong kind of difference came on the first day of Art History. The students filed into the room, every one of us glancing around the room to see which of our friends were there. Mine were not. In fact, most of the kids in the class were what I would call our school’s academic elite who had come to love this particular teacher during the math classes they had with him. The first five minutes of Art History class were the usual introduction and syllabus review. I think I was the only one in the class who had not had this teacher in any other class. The teacher then asked “who here is looking to go on to University next year?” and, since it was an OAC class, every single student put up their hand. The teacher scanned the crowd with his icy glare and his eyes locked on me… “Fero, you’re looking at going on to University?” How could I possibly respond to that? Normally I would have probably dropped a quick and witty one-liner, but this was not the room for that. It was all I could do to breathe. I went through five different emotions in about 10 seconds – anxiousness, fear, embarrassment, sadness, and anger. I settled on anger. I think about this exchange from time to time. In the decades since that day I have entertained many ideas, including getting in contact with this teacher. I guess I just wanted him to know the impact he had on me in that moment and how it’s shaped my own career as a teacher. I had a romantic vision of this conversation, which would end up with me forgiving him. This, however, is a reconciliation that doesn’t need to happen. I’ve been able to forgive the teacher for his misstep, because I know it happens. It’s unfortunate, but in the life of a teaching career – number of days taught, number of interactions in a day - I’m sure he had no idea at the time, no memory, and no need for forgiveness. Time heals, and I've learned other lessons. ______________________ I am sure that there are many students out there, like me, that are may be hanging on to something from school. It’s this realization that makes me aware of the impact that my actions and words have on the students that I interact with. Toward this end, here are some simple rules that allow me to make the right kind of difference:
On any given day, a teacher can be my former PE teacher, or my former Art History teacher. Always be aware of the influence you have over young lives. What might seem like an insignificant moment, or a fleeting comment can be the ones that matter most. Memories of these moments, positive or negative, can last a lifetime. ______________________ Thanks for reading. My hope is that this week's blog post might spark a memory of a teacher who made the right (or wrong) kind of difference for you. If you would like to share your story, please leave a comment. You can also message me on Twitter via @PrincipalFero or email at [email protected]. I can post your comments for you if that's easier. I look forward to the start of each and every school year.
It’s August, but I’ve been thinking about the new school year since the third week of July when I woke up from my self-induced coma. Yeah, I should probably be off enjoying my summer vacation, but I’m heading in to work anyhow. Which excuse will I tell myself today to justify working when I don’t have to?
I like it when no one else is in the school. It’s all clean and quiet and I work best like this. Leave the kids with grandma for a while so I can have some time to myself. I convince myself that I am just committed to the profession, but I NEED this. I need to have some internal conversation. How do I arrange my classroom furniture this year? Where will the student supplies go? The conversations are cathartic and all very necessary. I’m taking the next few days off to think about things. Yep, just needed that one day… Back in. That one day wasn’t enough. I painstakingly consider, reconsider and overthink everything. Move things and then move them all again. Over and over. I have spent hours deciding on the big things and the little things. It’s a process, and one I have to go through on my own. Soon, after many hours, everything is in order. Take a few days more days off… Back in. I love my teaching team. We’ve planned together and know what we need to do to get these kiddos where they need to go. Many more hours invested, but well worth it. I feel better than ever about our plan for the year. Did I mention that I love my teaching team? Long weekend… First day. New outfit. Looking good. Feeling good. The classroom is ready. Can't wait to meet my new students. I’m ready. Actually, am I? That clock is moving way too quickly. Supervision will start soon. Time for one last, lonely moment. Nervous energy. Stop. Look around. Hard work done. Everything in the right place. You got this. Best. Year. Ever. Deep breath. Ahhhhhh. One more. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. ... RRRIIINNNGGG And it begins. While I am positive you non-teachers don’t want or need me to tell you about the benefits of another holiday, in our world Spring Break seems to come around at the most opportune time. It is a vital part of the calendar for many reasons. Here are just a few:
Spring Break might mean a getaway vacation for some, but a staycation can work just as well. Regardless of your plans, Spring Break benefits students, teachers and families, and is a much-needed part of the school schedule. Enjoy it for what it is, and hopefully we all return rested and ready to rock and roll through to June. Student-Led Conferences are now a staple in most schools, yet I hear from many parents that they still find these non-traditional conferences very confusing. The top comment is that parents aren’t really sure what exactly they should be doing. Well, here are some simple DOs and DON’Ts to lead you to a parenting win at your child’s next student-led conference. DOs Attend! – This sounds simple enough, but in the flow of the school year many parents may feel that things are going well and there isn’t much to say about your child that you haven’t already heard. It’s also highly possible that you’re leading busy lives with extra-curricular activities and sibling events. While this may be true, you should view this opportunity in that your child has a starring role in a one-person play. I don’t think anyone would want their child to do without an audience as they took the stage for their big night. Listen In – The star of the show will be well-prepared to share the best of what they’ve got and they’re anticipating an attentive audience. In their excitement, they are very likely going to whip through things really fast. In many cases they will have a script or agenda to run down and they may be overly eager to get through it all. Stick with them and pick out some key points to refer back to. Pro tip – leave your phone in the car. Ask Questions – When you get that right break in the action, and after you tell them how happy you are with their work, keep the conversation going with some key questions. Depending on the age, they may lead you with “so this is my writing” before they start flipping through the pages. On the other end, they may begin their sharing with a complex review of curricular outcomes which can sounds just like boring technical language. Some great questions might include the following:
DON’Ts Focus on Conversation with the Teacher – This particular evening is not the time for you to review your child’s progress with the teacher. Your child has spent a long time preparing for your visit and they’re expecting to be the star of the show. If you feel that a separate conversation is needed, just indicate this to the teacher at the end of your visit, or send them an email at another time and make a time to chat about your questions or concerns. Compare Your Child’s Work to their Peers – Since many student-led conferences are set up in open house style format, the work of all students will likely be on display. While you may be inclined to compare, keep the focus on your own child. In that brief moment when you switch your attention to another child’s work, your own child will recognize that you’re sizing up their work up. Students don’t like to be judged at any time, let alone on the night where they have you all to themselves. Focus on Little Mistakes – In browsing through your child’s work, you might notice some particular pieces that might not reflect their best work. You can easily encounter spelling errors, rushed drawings, mathematical miscalculations, incomplete assignments, teacher comments, and graded assessments. In fact, you will likely encounter more imperfect work than perfect work. Keep in mind that you’re looking at assignments in various stages of progress so don’t derail a great evening by focusing on the one or two things your child didn’t really prepare for you to see. Thank you in advance for making your child the star of this conference. From a teacher perspective, student-led conferences as one of the highlights of the year because each child has a chance to share their day-to-day life in school with the most important people in their lives. Hopefully you might use this advice to make your visit a memorable one. Finally, if you really want to get it to the next level, taking your kid for an ice cream after the conference may just put you in parent-of-the-year territory. Enjoy! My picture is yours. Saturday mornings. In Calgary. Cold, snowy and bleak. Week after week.
Month on month. L O N G. S I G H. The regular routine consisted of me waking early, creaking past the slumber teens, grabbing a cup of warming tea and watching with a smile as my devoted Brittany, Scarlett, would follow me around the quiet morning house. Always at my heels. Nails on the hardwood as I moved stealthily toward the office to retrieve my laptop. Weekly blog awaited. Words would flow. Blissful moments punctuated by that dog, now sleeping at my feet. The now routine has brought about a few changes. Tea to-go. Devoted Brittany eager and excited in anticipation. Still on my heels as I try to pull on my big boots. Layering on winter wear. Walking past the office and into the garage. Words become emerging thoughts as I stroll alongside the frosted, frozen Bow. Blissful moments punctuated by the bounding dog, running through winter’s worst. Changing the picture. Dog over Blog. Get Outside. High School was all about freedoms, but there was also a fair share of routine. One of the routines was rushing home after school to watch the ever-popular Video Hits which came on at 4:00. Initially greeted each day by Dan Gallagher, the show moved to Samantha Taylor who ushered me through my teen years.
Adding to the excitement of Video Hits was the fact that all your friends and classmates were doing the same thing. Shortly after the show, we would all run to our landlines and call around ranking the best of the videos. We’d slag the bands and genres we didn’t really like and critique the quality of the videos. For me, Hungry Like the Wolf by Duran Duran was the benchmark from which all other videos were to be judged. Needless to say, we all started Beta and VHS collections of the recorded show, which we then watched over and over again. Returning to school the next day, we all vied for attention as we staked our claims to having for being a bigger fan of a particular band or artist and proclaiming newly aired videos as hits or duds. “Discovering” a new band was a pretty big deal and committing to a new band could put you on the firing line of scrutiny and trust me when I say a horde of high school boys could be brutal toward their friends for stepping out of line. It would usually go something like this: “Hey, that new Pet Shop Boys video was pretty cool.” What you really wanted to hear was a simply “Yeah”, but what you usually got was “Oh man, you’re such an idiot”, or “Of course you love the Pet Shop Boys you freakin' preppy”. You really needed to be sure you were on board with a new band before you were willing to subject yourself to these kinds of risks. One other thing that Video Hits offered was a commitment to Canadian content. I think that commitment was critical to the success of fringe acts like Glass Tiger or Platinum Blonde who, in my retrospective opinion, were able to carve our sales and a fan base based solely on their video plays. One day a grainy, poorly filmed, instantly Canadian video rolled out. I can still recall the exact experience because it was the same each and every time an experimental Canadian video aired – “Man, this is gonna be great to shred this with the boys tomorrow in the cafeteria”. The video rolled and the first line you heard was “Ladies and Gentlemen, our very own Tragically Hip”… Tragically Hip? What? I can’t remember if there was a phone conversation that day after Video Hits, but I do remember the Tragically Hip coming up right away in the cafeteria the next day. My friends Dave and Rob immediately proclaimed Small Town Bringdown as a success, only to be met with laughter and ridicule from the rest. My comment? “The Tragically Hip are tragically s&%t!” a line which I proceeded to use for the next couple years while Dave and Rob became immediate fans of the band. They tried to push their EP into the cassette players only to have them immediately ejected and maybe even tossed in the backseat or across the room. They stayed true, and as true as they were, I was even more insistent about their demise uttering, at will, my now immediate refrain, “The Tragically Hip are tragically s&%t!” Then came a day not unlike any other day, whether it was on Video Hits or Much Music, the long-awaited new release from The Tragically Hip was about to drop. I licked my proverbial chops ready to slam the latest offering to my two Hip-loving friends. I can only say that what came next was perhaps my first lesson in humility. The first few chords of Blow at High Dough literally kicked my butt and before the video had ended I went from the biggest hater to a legitimate fan. There was no denying that Dave and Rob had staked claim to something big. They were right, I was wrong, and I was all in. To say Up To Here was amazing would be an understatement. It was the gateway to a decades long love affair and quite literally and simply, the soundtrack of my life, corresponding with the most critical ages of my maturity into adulthood: Up to Here (18), Road Apples (20), Fully Completely (21), Day for Night (23), Trouble at the Henhouse (25), Phantom Power (28), etc. Since the announcement of Gord Downie’s terminal cancer diagnosis the entire country embraced, re-embraced, or embraced the band harder. We all realize and accept that The Tragically Hip have affected all of our lives in some way, but the best part is how each of us have managed to create and hold on to many special moments that belong to no one else other than ourselves. I never met Gord or the band, but in listening to the many stories of the life of Gord Downie over the last several days I feel like I knew him. In my mind I would run into him randomly somewhere, be immediately awestruck by his celebrity and struggle for words only to have him kindly introduce himself and go about asking questions about who I am and what my story is. This is the simply Canadian essence of Gord Downie and those who knew him best have confirmed it. As a related aside, I knew this genuine warmth and humble nature because I was fortunate to have had an amazing friend, Brett Kilroe, who would also treat everyone with intense kindness and who had that unique ability to make you feel like you were the only one in the room, and the only one he cared about. Sadly, Brett passed last year due to a long battle with cancer, but I think that Brett lived his life like Gord, and this was tragically mirrored in their passing. Gord Downie’s passing last week causes aches for many small reasons which collectively make a larger void. Ultimately, I feel that I want to thank Gord Downie for all these small things. Gord Downie, thank you for:
Last weekend I got into the car with my 16 year-old son to head to a hockey tournament in Banff. I let him drive so I could DJ the drive into the mountains. I couldn’t think of any better way to celebrate Gord Downie’s life than this. The first song was Small Town Bringdown and my son turned to me almost immediately and says “I don’t really like this, can we listen to my music?” I just turned to him and said “give it some time, it’ll grow on you.” Please feel free to comment and share your story. It's been so amazing to hear all the great ways in which Gord Downie and The Tragically Hip has intersected all of our lives. Inspiration is everywhere. As an educator it’s one of the most amazing parts about the job. One of the most inspirational moments in my early career came when I was teaching grade one. There were more than a few students in my class that had trouble reading and I knew that it was going to be a long year with a lot of hard work ahead to get these students where they needed to be.
As I began that year of teaching I came in with the intention of covering all my curricular outcomes for the year. My fancy teacher binder housed all my day, week, month, and year plans and I was ready for the year. Accompanying my plans, I had an actual checklist with all my grade one learning outcomes and I was set to go through them one by one until I could successfully say that I had done my job and taught the entire curriculum. My first mission was to make these non-readers into readers as quickly as I could so that I could check that box off and just get on with other things. On a day-to-day perspective, working with these struggling readers was daunting. There was little additional support, and success was slow or non-existent. One student would start to make gains, and then two more seems unresponsive to intervention. It felt like the proverbial one step up, two steps back. Every. Single. Day. My day plans soon went out the window. My month plans got set back. My year plans therefore also needed a complete overhaul. What were these non-readers doing to me? I was a complete and utter wreck because everything I had set up before the year had even started were now obliterated thanks to all the time I was needing to devote to basic literacy skills. I decided to turn my blame on to others - the kindergarten teachers, the parents, the school administration, my team partners, my educational assistant, my university professors, and my teacher preparation program. If I’m honest, I even thought about dropping my intervention altogether and turning my attention to my other students who could read. I thought, “maybe these students just aren’t ready to read yet” and wondered if I could just leave the heavy lifting to the grade two teachers. For a time, the despair was a constant in my world, but there was another constant, and that was a group of eager students who wanted to read. One day, one of my students with whom I was doing intervention came up to me and said “Mr. Fero, when can we read together again” and that simple comment provided all the inspiration I needed. So I didn’t give up. When one strategy didn’t take hold, I tried another. I consulted with colleagues and accessed system supports. I made sure my readers had the right materials, and I was giving them the right feedback. But the most important part of the work is that I didn’t lose faith. I persisted. And while I thought it was my efforts that encouraged my students, it was the persistence and resiliency of my students that pushed me on. You see; they didn’t give up either. I would love to say that the story had a perfect ending. I would love to say that each of those non-readers became great readers, but that would be a lie. While they all didn’t become readers that year, many did. What each of them did achieve during that grade one year was a set of skills that would benefit them in the years going forward and I would like to think that they developed a sense that there were teachers there to help them, and push them and work alongside them. For me, the year taught me many things too. It taught me that despite the best laid plans that things may need to go in a different direction. I realized that my work might not be THE work, and that the students and their needs were the most important part of the job. I thank my non-readers for providing me that inspiration, and equally thankful for the lessons they taught me. This year, my blog posts will be focused on the moments and things that inspire me as an educator and as a person. I am continually in awe of the many ways in which we are inspired and what particular things we choose to be inspired by. Happy reading, and thanks for taking the time. |
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