In your classrooms everyday, who will you see?

A child of poverty from

Nashville, Tennessee?

An English language

learner from Milwaukee?

A child that speaks and

reads behind his peers?

A student who is “fair in

arithmetic,weak in

handwriting”?

A child who needs more time to do

tasks?

A student who requires more time to finishclass work?

An awkward boy?

An awkward girl?

A child sent away by her

parents?

A child who aspired to be

the class clown?

An intensely stubborn

girl?

A student who dreams of

becoming a professional

tennis player?

A student born into poverty?

A student with

seemingly unrealistic dreams?

A child who sees things

differently from others?

A child who does not follow the

rules?

A child who can hardly read or

write but speaks

in poetry?

A child who is bored and

almost drops out of

school?

A child whose teacher said he’d never amount to anything because he couldn’t focus?

A child with

dyslexia?

A child raised by

grandparents?

We often find in others

exactly what we look for.

This year . . .

Who will you see?

Teach our students to believe in

themselves…

Help them recognize their strengths…

Never forget that the teacher is the single most important

factor in the classroom…

Schools and caring educators with high expectations do

make a difference.

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Once you choose hope,

anything's possible.

-Christopher Reeve