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The Surprise of Six

by Laura Gurley on November 4, 2011

There is a goodness in humanity– even teenage humanity– that rises in the form of a mosh-pit on a basketball court when a certain someone nails another three-pointer.

Evidence that sometimes even the unassuming can surprise us with greatness we never expected.

And perhaps one of our greatest roles as educators is to be the ones looking for that surprise,

and then going a little crazy ourselves when we find it.

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by Laura Gurley on October 4, 2011

Congratulations to the winners of our Thai ring giveaway . . . Caroline L. {subscriber}, PennyBugMom, and Jennifer J. P. Email me your address, ladies, and I will get those in the mail this week. {lauraleighparker @ gmail . com} Thanks to those who tweeted and shared and followed.  We’ll be giving something else away soon, promise.

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Take three minutes to watch the following video of one of the most inspirational moments in recent Olympic history. . .

And perhaps today you need to show this to your students, to remind them not to give up, to finish strong, to refuse to let a knock-down mean a knock-out.

Or maybe, maybe, you needed to be reminded of this image today– that our role as teachers, as parents, as friends, as colleagues is to race out on the track, fight off the people that say we can’t, put an arm around the fallen, and limp together towards the finish line.

Because there are some races that we all need help completing.

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*Laura, a former middle school teacher and current home educator, blogs at ALifeOverseas.

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