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When Colleen Powell, a SPED teacher, walked down the aisle at her wedding, she knew that she wanted two people to give her away to her future husband – her father, Greg Costello, and her 10-year-old student, Dominic May. Dominic has Down syndrome and is non-verbal, yet he’s touched Colleen’s heart in so many ways.
Nobody knows dedication like Sharon Bradley, an 85-year-old educator who teaches health science at Naaman Forest High School outside Dallas. While most people her age are already enjoying their retirement years, Sharon doesn’t see herself taking the same path. Work keeps her alive, and the fact that she hasn’t missed a single day of class
What’s the most recent activity you did in your social media account that you can be proud of? Did you post a meme or vine for your followers to get a good laugh? Or did you create a fundraising page for timely environmental issues to raise awareness? As for Kristen Bell, she did a noble
As a special education teacher, Kerry Bremer’s job requires a lot of patience and understanding. But for one of her former students, Kerry gave more than that – she gave him a loving home and a family to call his own. The Massachusetts resident first met Jake Manning – a boy with Down syndrome –
A third-grader student gave his teacher the surprise of her life as he offered her his birthday money, thinking teachers are not being paid enough. Just before Halloween, teacher Mary Hall Chambers was surprised by a folder in her classroom at Gorrie Elementary school in Tampa. Inside were $15 cash and a note from her
A Kentucky elementary school teacher went to great lengths to make sure that a student with a physical disability wouldn’t miss out on one of the most important school activities of the year. 10-year-old Ryan King had Spina bifida, a condition that has made her paralyzed from the waist down ever since she was a
When this third-grader got a perfect score on his reading test, his teacher decided to congratulate him in the most special way! Eight-year-old Christopher Abney of Valley, Alabama, just earned a 100% score in his reading test. For his teacher, Mrs. Willonda Caffie, such a feat deserves special recognition. A few days after Christopher’s achievement,
There is truly no limit to what a united community of people can accomplish. And David Green and his wife Megan, can attest to this fact when their child was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The couple’s one-year-old daughter Kinsley is battling cancer, and when Megan posted a call for help on social media, the family
The saying, “what goes around comes around” sometimes becomes the motivation for people to do good, so that they will receive good in return. But for this Kenyan school teacher, he surely wasn’t thinking of personal gain when he was donating most of his earnings to the poor – he was doing it purely out
A school is a place for students to study and learn. A place where they need to take examinations, do laboratory experiments, submit homework, and participate in various activities to evaluate what they have learned. With all of these responsibilities, it is no wonder why students rarely associate the word ‘fun’ with studying. But one
“A teacher affects an eternity; He can never tell where his influence stops.” A remarkable math teacher from Georgia, Tammy Waddell, took Henry Adams’ well-known saying to a new height. Tammy was able to continue touching the lives of her students, even after her untimely death. Awarded as the County Elementary School’s Teacher of the Year, Tammy
Whenever we receive a compliment from someone, it’s only natural that most of us would feel good and be uplifted — but this was not what happened when the 29-year old teacher Leigha Bishop admired the hairstyle of one of her students named August. August Burroughs is just one of the Pre-K students Miss Bishop
