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Celebrating Teachers on the Day of the Teacher

By John Norton

This group contribution from the Teacher Leaders Network is inspired by California’s Day of the Teacher, which falls on May 12, and a timely blog post titled “Thank You Notes” by 2010 National Teacher of the Year finalist Kelly Kovacic, who wrote in part:

One of my advisory students, a young woman I had as a student for seven years, recently sent me a two-page letter. She attached a short note to the letter explaining that after all the letters of recommendation I wrote for her she wanted to write one for me because “you can never have too many letters of recommendation.”

Kovacic went on to offer a few spontaneous letters of recommendation of her own, and TLN members have followed suit. Here are several of their posts from the TLN daily discussion group, where we’ve decided to declare California’s Day of the Teacher a...