BACK TO SCHOOL: TEACHER’S EDITION
I never slept the night before school started. Not as a student; not as a teacher. I was too excited. The beginning of a brand-new school year stretched before me, magical and unknown. What treasures would the next nine months hold? What rewards, what fun? Teaching was my calling. I was put here to teach. I realized that in third grade, in Muscogee County Elementary School, in Columbus, Georgia, in the classroom of Mrs. Mabel Howard. She loved children and…