Saturday, November 19, 2011

Inspiration: Be nice, work hard

Rafe Esquith


Sarah Brown Wessling, National Teacher of the Year (2010)
Wessling works as hard as her students, instilling hope in those who had given up on education by being available far outside a fifty minute lecture and giving far more than a few notes at the end of a paper, by engaging them with alternative assignments that can make the words of a philosopher, dead for two millennia, relevant to their lives now and by celebrating any small moment of progress, from one student showing up five days in a row like never before to a grade-obsessed student risking a B to pursue an idea.

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