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RCPS People Making a Difference...
Every single person on the RCPS team plays an important role in the success of our students. Throughout the year, let’s take time to highlight and thank RCPS people who make a difference.
Teachers are the backbone of every school and school district. If teachers are not doing it; it is not getting done! Anyone who thinks they have gone to school and, therefore, can teach and anyone who thinks teaching is an easy job (“afterall, you get your summers off”), does not have a clue! Teachers have to be content experts, child development experts, brain science experts, pedagogy experts, behavior management experts, assessment experts, customer service experts, and masters and models of communication, creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and citizenship. They plan and deliver. Great teachers love what they teach and whom they teach. They invest and intervene in the lives of children and adolescents, making a difference, often without knowing it at the time. Teaching is complex, hard, and incredibly valuable work. Thank you, Teachers!
This past week is also Teacher Appreciation Week! Even though we featured teachers in the February edition, we can never say enough to highlight the complex, challenging work our teacher do! Teachers, I know you are all concerned about your students and miss them terribly. Even the students that you would never think would miss being at school, are definitely missing you too! As work continues at the state level to provide guidelines and direction for next school year, and as we think about all the possibilities and scenarios, I am grateful that we have the best teachers in place that will work together to implement the plans put in place. The state and the district can provide the general plan and direction, but, at the end of the day, the most important work will be what you do in the classroom to make it happen. We will all have to learn new skills to even more effectively help students with remote learning as we potentially move in and out of phases, but we will figure this out. In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, here is a short video clip to say thank you!