How Did I Get Here?
It all started in December when I received an email stating that I had been nominated for a Big Apple Teacher Award and that I had made it to the next round. My first thought was disbelief! Can you imagine that? You have just been told that you have been nominated for an award and the first thing that runs through your mind is "there must have been a mistake!" How is that even possible? Why do teachers constantly think that they aren't good enough? Once I let the news sink in for a moment or two, I reread the email and let the words sink in. "Someone had nominated you." That meant that someone in my school took it upon themselves to nominate me for an award because they thought that I was good. No, strike that, they thought I was great! They thought that I was an amazing teacher and how did I repay this gift of kindness and recognition, with the idea that I wasn't good enough to be nominated! This is a problem! All too...