A flower for the teacher!
As we come to the close of another school year let me take this opportunity to remind you how much you matter in the life of children and their parents who understand and appreciate the value of arts education. They may not know how many hours you put into teaching each day, they may not know how you labor over trying to figure out how to reach each child, they may not know how many times you put your job before yourself or your family but they notice how much you care!
THANK YOU for what you do each day for kids and their arts education throughout the state of Maine. Having walked in your shoes for 30 years it is easy for me to remember the bittersweet feeling I had at the end of each school year!
The following is from Seth Godin’s blog which can be found at this link: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/
You matter
When you love the work you do and the people you do it with, you matter.
When you are so gracious and generous and aware that you think of other people before yourself, you matter.
When you leave the world a better place than you found it, you matter.
When you continue to raise the bar on what you do and how you do it, you matter.
When you teach and forgive and teach more before you rush to judge and demean, you matter.
When you touch the people in your life through your actions (and your words), you matter.
When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.
When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter.
When you inspire a Nobel prize winner or a slum dweller, you matter.
When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.
And when the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.
HAPPY SUMMER!
