Friends, as we wind down Teacher Appreciation Week, may I share with you a little about the staff who work with your children? They are teachers, ALL of them. They stood outside our front doors through varying March/April weather to feed the community. 1/
They came to the school on a Sunday just as schools were closing down to work alongside volunteer parents to ready books and materials to send home with children. They clean the school building with pride until the floors gleam, fit to be their own homes. 2/
Your child’s teachers learned THREE new technology platforms in as many weeks to be able to come face to face with your child. Years ago, they planted a community garden that thrived even through summer, when school wasn’t in session. 3/
They began MakerSpace movements in our building that spilled into evening events that turned your children into inventors. They adopted Concept-Based Instruction last year when people said it couldn’t be done school-wide. 4/
They create proud composers and artists of children who can’t wait to share their work with others. They challenge families to keep moving even when they’re not expected to be working. They come to school to help even when they don’t know what’s happening with their own jobs. 5/
There are three teachers with doctorates and four with administration degrees (besides @cpes_ap and me). There is a screenplay writer, biologist, and most every Masters Degree you can imagine. There are published writers, bilingual interpreters, and a teacher writing new. 6/
Reading curriculum for FCPS. Teachers who come from far and near, who have the local perspective and understand globally. And they make my job easy, here’s why: Because in the middle of a pandemic, when the world is chaotic and nobody knows the answers, but 7/
I can look at my technology specialist and say, “Here’s your time to flip a school. Just tell me what to do.” And I know I could do that with any specialist in my building if I needed to, and teachers, whether they are in a classroom, in the cafeteria, in SACC 8/
In the custodial profession, each and every one of them including my “partner in crime” have the professionalism, motivation, and innovation to lend their expertise on behalf of our children...9/
All that’s left for me to do is share the good news with you. ♥️ 10/
And one more thing, your teachers genuinely, honestly, truly love your children. They would move mountains for them. We all would. It is an honor to work alongside this CPES staff. I am a lucky one. /10
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