Personal Reflection On Zero The Hero's Journey

I would like to share some of my thoughts and hope you have a few minutes to read this with sincerity and truly reflect on it. I read your email about the 100th day and I have to say that I really do not understand and can’t pretend as if I do. I feel as if this activity is viewed as a cute little tradition that has to be continued because it’s tradition. You basically said to me Oh, it’s tradition so we can’t really cancel it. This really hurts my heart because I know how much it means to my students because I work with them every day. We have been building on this goal for exactly 91 days now and the students are so excited to finally get to meet Zero the Hero that they can barely contain themselves. Now to me, this is teaching. They are learning how to be lifelong learners and to love learning.
I have had the amazing pleasure of receiving visits from past students moving on to higher education, future jobs, or actually seeing them out in the working community. They will not remember the names of some of their elementary …show more content…
We have an amazing family at our school right now that had the opportunity to leave our school for a magnet school when their daughter was in my kindergarten. They turned it down because they loved the education she was getting and especially loved the excitement her daughter had for school. Her third child will be entering our school next year and she is so excited. She tells me how she talks to friends about how great our school is but especially how amazing our kindergarten program is and all of the exciting things that we do to make learning fun. She tries to convince friends to turn down the magnet schools and put their children in our school. She was telling me this a while back and I was actually very uncomfortable because I felt like she might be saying things that may not be the case much