This week brings is ! Since 1984, the 楼凤天堂 PTA has designated time each May for communities nationwide to honor teachers for their work with children. See the following resources from and for ideas on how you can celebrate teachers, including yourself and your colleagues.
Sarah Brown Wessling, high school English teacher, 楼凤天堂 member, and a past 楼凤天堂 Teacher of the Year, shares her thoughts on the far-reaching impact that teachers have on others in her post “.”
“”听蹿谤辞尘 Voices from the Middle presents 54 thank-you letters written by authors (of children’s literature, young adult literature, and professional texts) to classroom teachers, from the shadow of the events of September 11th, 2001, offering their thanks for teachers’ efforts to face those events with children, offering their personal thoughts about the events, or their thoughts of the power of literature in dark times.
Author Pat Mora, in from English Journal, suggests that teachers need to be writers to better teach writing. Helping students “bring themselves to the page” through their writing is one way to get them to know the joy of books.
Who are the key educators who contributed to a century-long professional history in the development of writing theory and pedagogy? Read about some of them in “” from Language Arts.
Donald Murray is an educator who made an impact on many. Read in College Composition and Communication about and his many contributions and meaningful connections.
Encourage students to write tributes to teachers who have made a profound difference in their lives then publish their work in a class collection in the lesson plan “.”
Share your thoughts and ideas about teachers here or on social media聽using the hashtag #ThankATeacher.