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Violent home books were a never ending source of inspiration a way to provide meaning to life at difficult times. One special teacher she says, mrs. Belton helped shanna develop her passion. She says she taught me it was possible to read and write my way into another life. Thats a pretty good description of education in general. Today miss peeples passiones that onto her students. They pour their stories onto the page and she tells them everyone has a voice, everyone has a story worth sharing. They discover their experiences arent so singular, that whether theyre an eat openian refugee or never set foot out of texas theyre not so different and not so alone as a consequence. Shanna works hard to earn and keep their trust and help them find new ways to grow ak academically academically, to reach for their future. In a sense i sell hope she says. I love that line. In a sense i sell hope. And her students are hungry for hope. Most kids are hungry for hope. Since shanna arrived there five y ....
Class learners is our mission and we answer it in our classrooms every day. Thank you secretary duncan for your advocacy of authentic learning and service for our students and your support of teacher leadership. Thank you to my wonderful family. Im nothing without you. Thank you to kayla, my student to the texas delegation and to my administrators. [ applause ] finally, thank you to the talented passionate and remarkably goodlooking group of state teachers of the year with whom i am privileged to join today. Each of them is a study in excellence and each of them is a representation of what a great teacher is. I am honored to stand here today. As a teacher of refugee students, i have been privileged to see Public Education through the eyes of students from countries as diverse as berm a, somalia, iraq, and cuba. Being here today makes me think of my student. She was a shy teenage girl who had little formal schooling and much suff ....