I’ve spent a summer building,
reflecting,
thinking,
creating
and waiting.

Letting the ideas simmer
and stir.

I’m an educator
who never stops thinking about education.

Always wanting the best ways to serve,
to inspire,
to challenge,
to uplift,
to push my students
and push myself.

Everything is a lesson
because learning doesn’t start with me.

My goal,
ever year,
is to get students to see,
to challenge
and to recognize
they are the arbiters
of their destiny.

I can show them doors to their future
once they walk through mine.

I’m setting up my classroom
and I pray,
as I do every year,
the students I have the privilege
to be with,
to teach
and to learn from,
will become the best versions they can be.