Monday Moanin Thoughts #206 Thank You Teachers!

Happy first Monday Moanin of May 2016 to all of you. This week across the country it is Teacher Appreciation week. I hope all of you are getting your messages ready to share with your staff. To assist you I am including two examples to help you as your prepare your message. The first example is from a Principal that is using Becoming from Miriam Pederson as a theme. Here is just a portion of her message;

The beauty of education is in working with children especially, but within each of us on this process of becoming in working with evidence of things unseen as Miriam Pederson so beautifully expresses in her poem Becoming. In it, she refers to someone, a stranger or even friend, and I would expand that definition to colleague or student.

BECOMING

In the folds of each day

someone waits to enter your life,

to appear in person or in a dream

and change you slightly—

as if a pencil sketch were being drawn

of you, and a line extended or erased

increases your vitality, your presence in the world.

Be ready for the entrance of a stranger

or a friend who, after an exchange, lingers

in the form of words, a look, a gesture,

new filaments joining your own,

becoming you.

Another leader used another poem from Brian Andreas, Deep Roots. Here is how he used it.

DEEP ROOTS

by Brian Andreas

When I die she said,
I am coming back
as a tree with deep roots.
& I’ll wave my leaves
at the children every morning
on their way to school
and whisper tree songs
at night in their dreams.
Trees with deep roots know
about the things that children need.

I want to thank all of you for  planting and growing Deep Roots with all of your students.  You truly know about the things that children need. 

Write a thoughtful message, have a great week of celebration and keep finding the good stuff.