The Mark You Get Isn't You
Hey there Shifters, Matt here with an interruption to your regular scheduled programming. You see, my fellow shifter, Jamie Mitchell was presented with a pretty huge honour today at school. Some of you may have already heard that he was awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence Certificate of Achievement . That is a kind of a big deal. Out of thousands of nominations, only 10 teachers in Ontario were awarded that honour! What I found really striking about the ceremony we just had at our school to mark the award, was in fact a student Maggi Djurdjevic. Maggi went to the considerable work (it is a 21 page application!) to nominate her teacher and she spoke eloquently on why she nominated Jamie for this honour. She said that Jamie Mitchell was able to take a subject that she isn’t particularly strong in, math, and make that period the best part of her day. That is pretty awesome! Two more ideas really hit home with...