Depending on your location, you are ready to go on summer break, started fall already, or have students who start Monday. Whenever you are starting your school year, I think my friend and neighbor's thoughts ring true for me and may be the same for you too.
Shared with permission from Kristie Wilson, pre-k, San Diego Unified: Happy back to school to all the educators and school professionals in the area! Wishing you the best year! Let's hope this is the year the laminator doesn't break right before open house and all parents read the papers you send home. May your kids dreams be higher than the play structure and hearts warmer than whatever that thing is on the lunch trays on Tuesday. This is it, this could be the year you have too much help from parents and suddenly boys lose interest in Axe body spray. This may even be the year you don't drop all the papers you just stacked neatly and don't ruin your shoes in that puddle that didn't look that deep. What if this is the year your name somehow gloriously gets left off of the bus duty/ recess duty list and you never send a kid to the office for lice? May you be brave enough tell someone "no" and generous to tell someone "yes." May your stapler always be full and your pencils always sharp. May your prep periods feel long and your meetings be short. May your coffee cups be full and your game faces be on. You are valuable, you are needed, you are great, you are mighty, you are the front line, you are the light carrier. Cheers!
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