What a great time of year. You can see the light at the end of the school year tunnel. Your students are about as close to perfect as they\u2019re going to get\u2014doing what you want them to do, when you want them to. They are trained. They know the classroom procedures.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve broken up the fights, navigated the girl drama. You\u2019ve counseled \u2026 you\u2019ve wiped noses \u2026 cleaned up blood (and other things we won\u2019t mention). Your students have become a little classroom family\u2014because they have a teacher who knows that relationships come first!<\/p>\n
It\u2019s almost over\u2014your break is sooooo close.<\/strong><\/p>\n You\u2019ve made it through the dreaded testing period. You\u2019ve done your checks for understanding, your formative and summative assessments. Made sure your students were \u201chighly engaged\u201d in every lesson.<\/p>\n You\u2019ve done your bus duty \u2026 recess duty \u2026 sometimes even nurse duty. You\u2019ve tried positive behavior supports, worried about your kids after they\u2019ve left for the day, and gone to bed wondering, \u201cWhat can I do to save this kid?\u201d<\/p>\n A now\u2014oh, happy day\u2014it\u2019s Teacher Appreciation Week!<\/strong><\/p>\n The awesome gifts from all those appreciative parents will soon be rolling in. After all, you\u2019ve spent six hours a day for nearly 180 days teaching, supporting, encouraging their kids\u2014they obviously recognize what an accomplishment that is.<\/p>\n So get ready to accept the gift certificates for massages, the Starbucks and restaurant gift cards. Perhaps flowers, or candy, or even a luxury trip will be gifted to you.<\/p>\n I can see it now \u2026 a gaggle of grateful parents placing a crown on your head, hoisting you on their shoulders, and parading you through the school. So everyone can see that you are indeed queen or king for the day.<\/p>\n And your principal \u2026 oh my, I just know he or she will be showering you with praise this week. You\u2019ll probably be told to take an afternoon (or two) off. After all, you\u2019ve earned it!<\/p>\n Ah, yes! I know all my teacher friends can expect this\u2014and so much more\u2014during this joyous Teacher Appreciation Week.<\/p>\n . BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!<\/p>\n OK, I tried to keep it together, but I just couldn\u2019t!<\/p>\n I know you probably won\u2019t receive many of these things. Maybe if you\u2019re lucky, your principal will put a nice card and a piece of candy in your mailbox. (Or maybe not. Administrators are just as fried this time of year as the rest of us!)<\/p>\n But there is a silver lining. Even though you don\u2019t get near the praise, the gifts, the appreciation, or the paycheck you deserve for being a teacher, you still get to do the BEST damn job in the world!<\/p>\n You get to TEACH. You get to INFLUENCE young lives in really big ways. You get to help your students BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES when no one else does.<\/strong><\/p>\n And even though you might not get lavished with gifts, you still get to walk out of that school every day with your head held high. Because YOU, teacher friend, are an important part of the most noble, sacred profession there is.<\/p>\n And your dedication is most definitely appreciated.<\/p>\n P.S. I don\u2019t want you to go completely gift-less this year. So if you\u2019re subscribed to my newsletter, watch your inbox for an extra special surprise coming soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How to Prepare for the Presents and the Praise What a great time of year. You can see the light at the end of the school year tunnel. Your students are about as close to perfect as they\u2019re going to get\u2014doing what you want them to do, when you want them to. They are trained. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-joy-drop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47484,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673\/revisions\/47484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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