All Teachers Were Once Students

Recently our district held our annual back to school leadership convocation. It is always motivational and uplifting. We love seeing all of our leader-friends, the supportive adminstration, and hear a "State of the District" address from our superintendent. This year our guest speaker was author Flip Flippen. I have had the pleasure of hearing Flip before and have had several conversations based on his bookThe Flip Side with my administrative team. In passing, Flip mentioned that his office contains pictures of all his employees as children to help them remember that they were once kids themselves and to use that feeling as a framework for decisions and words. I loved that idea and asked our teachers to send me photos of themselves in the grade they will be teaching. We are posting them outside the classroom doors so that every child will see their teacher as a kindergartner, third grader, etc. Our theme this year is Peace, Love, & Lions, so I placed them on this cute paper. Love this idea of helping teachers remember that they were little once, too!