A Birthday Celebration
As
our United States of America celebrates its 236th birthday, we in the
Bayh College of Education's Department of Educational Leadership at
Indiana State University would like all of you, our friends and colleagues in K-12 education, to understand how
much we value all you do to make a difference in our nation’s schools.
Thank
you for the positive differences you are making in the lives of so many!
Consider
the following ... realizing that these are only a small part of what you do:
That
you take your time, effort, care, and consideration to educate all who walk
through your doors, no matter the inequities of life circumstance or preparatory
ability;
That
you do so mindful of the steep challenges that exist for all in our profession
and our continuing mandate to become even more effective than each next day’s,
best work;
That
you continually improve your skills, invest in your own professional
capacity, and reach your goals through targeted professional development and graduate-school enrollment;
That
you learn for the sake of learning, intrinsically motivated as are we in the
Bayh College of Education, to become complete professionals as experts or mediators
of learning, persons, and members of communities;
That
no matter the off-putting headline or misinformed editorial, you arise with
vigor each morning, knowing with assuredness that without you, no doctors,
scientists, engineers, teachers, social workers, or postal clerks would exist to serve our state and nation, as you inspired and prepared them all;
That
those in our nation’s military, fighting to preserve our cherished freedoms and
those around the world, think often of you in the quiet of the evening or in
the midst of valor;
And
that those who are your own friends, family, and children, will someday in your
passing, remember fondly the sacrifices you made while serving in the most humble
of professions, putting others before yourself and taking everyone you knew from
where they were to a better place, because that is simply the way you lived …
it is what you represent.
On
behalf of Indiana State University and all who love children, thank you for serving as a role model, most
cherished, and for helping make our nation’s birthday, and this time for rest,
relaxation, and reflection, one of joy, honor, and heartfelt anticipation of
what lies ahead for all of us.
Happy
4th of July!
The blog this week reminds me of a book entitle The Dash. It is a poem about not the dates on the tombstone, but the dash between; what has been accomplished during the dash. For when all is said and done, it is the dash that will be remembered.
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