Arizona ... we have lift off!

All I can think of to share about this week is THE most awesome feedback I've received from the book so far - and it came to me about an hour ago.  I am over the moon!  It means changes ARE happening, and there's proof!  What do we want?  -- to have a voice and be respected.  It is happening.  Small steps - but we have to start somewhere.  My prayer is that changes like this will happen exponentially until EVERY teacher in America has LESS on her/his plate!  Celebrating wit you ... Here you go:

So I have to tell you... today my principal started out with this statement: "I read this book this summer that the Superintendent gave to me. It is called... I will not resign. We all read it together and came to the same conclusion that we needed to take something off of teachers plates this year that would make a huge impact. Then she discussed how we have gone from cherishing students to testing without cause. She then said as of today>> We will only have one staff meeting a month and went on to name like five more things that we won't have to do this year.

I just wanted you to know that your message of loving kids is getting out there and that in order to do that you have to value the teachers.