Some Back-to-School Inspiration: "What Teachers Make"

My classroom will be filled with teenagers in exactly four weeks.  It's exciting, and scary, and exhausting.  There's so much to do this time of year that it's easy to lose sight of what we're really here for-- so I wanted to keep this in mind as the insanity ensues.

Taylor Mali, slam poet, wrote and delivered this piece, titled “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World."  

His take on what teachers really make . . . 

"I make a difference.  Now what about you?"

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