The Care of One Teacher Can Make a Lifetime of Difference

Sometimes, if we're fortunate, a person can briefly enter into our lives and end up redirecting its entire course for the better. It's a powerful truth, and a common theme I'm noticing in our Inspired2Educate program, which asks educators to share stories about the teachers, administrators and school staff who inspired them to go into education.

What we're seeing is that a teacher's influence on a student -- no matter how long they shared a classroom -- can sometimes be so personal, so profound that it has a ripple effect for decades to come.

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