A Great Idea for Thanksgiving
As we approach the Thanksgiving Holiday, we here at Our Education encourage you to take time to give thanks to someone who truly deserves it: the teacher who has had the greatest influence in your life.
If you're looking for a powerful way to thank your teacher, there are none more powerful than nominating your teacher to be a member of the USA Today's All-USA Teacher Team.
We often ask students to think about their favorite teacher, and then to imagine a public education system where every single classroom had a teacher as dedicated and as caring as their favorite teacher. How much better off would our schools and our children be if we had outstanding teachers in every class?
Getting to this kind of a day, of course, won't be easy, and it'll require policy change and resources to boot. But an easy and important place to start is to make sure that the best teachers out there today know how much their students appreciate them... and you can help do this with just a little bit of your time filling out the nomination form.