Celebrate YOU!

To be an educator is to be someone that no one else can be. Each year, we are gifted with a new set of students, and what we do with them is different than what anyone else might do with them. We are not cookie cut by design. We are instinctively different. We are molded from our own educational backgrounds and experiences. We are knowledgeable from our college experiences that have come and gone. All of these things make us unique--and almost alone in our independent ways. We have struggled. We have questioned. We have cried. We have worried. We have been challenged. We have challenged. We have taken risks. We have dusted ourselves off and celebrated that our failures have made us better...stronger..and more passionate about who we are, and what we aspire to be in this ever-changing world of education.

And really, it is that passion that ignites our dedication--a renewal of our faith in our chosen career path. Not all can be an educator. It takes a strong-willed, change-driven, risk-taking, passionate individual to make learning happen for children. You are all of these things and more in your very unique and experienced way.

What have you done to celebrate YOU lately?

Take a few minutes and write down three things that you love about being an educator. Now put it in a place where you will see it tomorrow, and every day after that, until you celebrate YOU again another time! Don't wait for another minute to pass without celebrating YOU as an educator.