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Teacher Self Care

A Teacher's Gratitude

About Aimee Cribbs

Dr. Aimee Cribbs has twenty years of elementary classroom experience in Georgia's Title I schools. She's taught in a diverse, urban setting and a small rural system. She currently serves as an Education adjunct for Piedmont College and the Morningside College Applied Research Center. She is also a teacher candidate supervisor for Dalton State College. Her research focuses include teaching creativity, educators as the instruments of reform, and graduate writing self-efficacy. She is an advocate for teachers, who she believes have the single most important job in the world.

I am a teacher.

I give thanks for dry erase markers that work and pre-sharpened pencils,

for chocolate and caffeine.

I meet canceled meetings, bathroom breaks and snow days with gratitude

and I am thankful

for forgotten fidget spinners and silly bands that’ve come and gone,

thankful

for completed paperwork, planned fire drills, and a full night’s sleep.

And as a holiday break arrives,

just in time,

I give thanks

I am a teacher.

I give thanks for challenge and unspoken trust,

for a-ha moments and tears.

I meet the chance to grow, the chance to learn and the chance to love

with gratitude.

And I am thankful

for calm and compromise,

thankful for

the knowledge that I am making a difference,

one human at a time.

 

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  1. Christine Oman says

    So creatively you, Aimee! Thank you for your dedication to education.

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