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Oh my, that just makes me fuzzy wuzzy all over and sends tingles down my leg.My that is certainly a vivid dystopian scenario you have playing in your head. In the real world:
"God bless the calculus teachers, and that is no joke. (Laughter.)
And what’s more, Rebecka’s school district is full of students who were a lot like she was.
The students in her district speak 62 different languages — 62. Many feel like they don’t quite belong. As you can imagine, Rebecka makes sure that they know that they do belong and they can achieve great things.
With Rebecka leading the way, the pass rate in her class went from 50 percent to 87 percent, nearly double the state average. (Applause.)
More of her students became National Merit Finalists than the entire rest of the district combined.
And, in the ultimate tribute, several of her former students are now math teachers themselves, as was referenced earlier.
Her students tell her even after they’ve graduated, they hold onto the lessons she taught them not only about integrals and derivatives but about community connections, about how all of us belong.
Rebecka put a teacher’s creed into words when she said,
“There’s no such thing as someone else’s child.” No such thing as someone else’s child."
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