When you ask us, day by day needs to be Instructor Appreciation Day, however we’ll take any alternative to see academics get the love they deserve! Instructor Appreciation Week is Might 5-9, 2025, and Instructor Appreciation Day itself is Tuesday, Might 6. Plenty of companies are providing Instructor Appreciation Week offers and treats to reward…
The Instructor of the Month award is our method of celebrating educators who stay out our core values—compassion, humility, integrity, loyalty, and self-discipline—every day. For February, we’re excited to announce that our 2025 February Nationwide Instructor of the Month is Ms. Carly from Little Sunshine’s Playhouse & Preschool of Schaumburg! The management workforce at Schaumburg…
We’re agency believers that academics deserve appreciation all yr lengthy. And we’ll take it within the type of greater salaries and stronger legal guidelines to make colleges safer for everybody. However we’re followers of the official Trainer Appreciation Day and U.S. Trainer Appreciation Week too. Right here’s extra about Trainer Appreciation Week, plus concepts for…
A mum or dad identified that her son was consuming uncooked kale that he had picked from the playground backyard. “He will not contact it at dwelling, however right here, he devours it!” This is not the primary we have heard of this phenomenon at Woodland Park. In truth, we see it nearly day-after-day. One…
4 I’m honored to contribute to The Way forward for Training Expertise for Okay-12, a brand new publication exploring how AI, digital citizenship, profession exploration, cybersecurity, and classroom know-how are shaping the way forward for schooling the place I share my ideas alongside different thought leaders together with Ms. Abbott (Abbott Elementary), Sharif El Mekki,…
A while in the past, we took the kids on a area journey to the native publish workplace. We had been a bunch of some 20 kids and eight adults. The girl giving us our tour launched herself as Ms. Lui, earlier than insisting that the kids get in a line. It was an inauspicious…
“Instructor Tom, it is actually quiet right here.” I used to be sitting with the three-year-old at a desk. There have been puzzle items in entrance of us, however we have been simply goofing round, making no effort to assemble them. Objectively, it wasn’t quiet. There have been kids squealing, laughing, and low-key bickering throughout…
At Little Sunshine’s Playhouse & Preschool, we imagine that nice lecturers encourage curiosity, nurture creativity, and make studying a joyful expertise. Every year, we acknowledge an educator who embodies these values—somebody who goes above and past to create significant moments for his or her college students and uplift these round them. This 12 months, we’re…
“The middle of the universe is all over the place,” writes Rebecca Solnit in her retelling of the Sleeping Magnificence fairy story, Waking Magnificence (or Eleven Instances Upon a Time), “and naturally it at all times appears to be proper the place you’re, so there are extra facilities than there are drops of rain in…
Final evening, I attended a group “open mic” occasion during which our neighbors took turns displaying off their abilities. I used to be there on the invitation of my buddy Invoice, an older man who misplaced his spouse just a little over three years in the past. Actually, the primary phrases I ever spoke to…
Awhile again, I learn the disgusting story of a police officer and his spouse who have been arrested for handcuffing and jailing his personal three-year-old in a single day, for 2 nights in a row, for the “crime” of soiling himself. Their protection is that it was their parental proper. Fortunately, Florida state regulation acknowledges this as…
3 Within the demanding world of training, self-care for lecturers is extra essential than ever. With the excessive burnout charges and compassion fatigue prevalent in instructing, discovering efficient trainer burnout options is important. Mindfulness in training, educator psychological well being, and gratitude follow for lecturers are highly effective methods that may remodel the instructing expertise….