Joshua I Smith

The Happy Teacher and Happy Students Joshua I Smith

The Happy Teacher and Happy Students manual helps bring out the joys of teaching and learning and pathways to helping children thrive. The Happy Teacher and Happy Students will inspire classroom revolutions, where: The boy who never smiled would start smiling And the girl who never wrote would start writing And the boy who never read would start reading And the boy who always cursed would stop cursing And the girl who always fought would stop fighting And the boy who talked too much would stop talking - too much And the girl who used to hide would stop hiding And the boy who used to lie would stop lying And the girl who hated words would start liking them (and loving you) And the girl who used to always say no would start saying yes And the boy who couldn't write a complete sentence would write complete sentences And the children who could write but refused would one day write a book And the boy who wasn't in your class would come to your class because of the *buzz *about your class And the boy who barely knew the alphabet would learn to read well enough to ace tests And the girl who was always angry would become mostly happy And the boy who was depressed would start (moon) walking on sunshine And the girl who was always mad would make peace with her world And the boy who didn't believe in himself would express faith in himself And the girl who was always feisty would show her vulnerable side (and thank you) And the boy who didn't like to read would love listening to himself - read And the girl who was always scared would no longer be afraid And the boy who was at the bottom academically would rise to the top And the girl who never engaged would one day rise from her chair and dance (to the music only she could hear -- and all of her peers would clap for her) And all of these marvelous things with children would happen because you had the courage to say yes when everyone else was saying no, to express faith when everyone else had stopped believing, to think about what could be when everyone else was thinking about what had been, and because you have watched from afar the start of many revolutions and now you know you can't rest...until you start your own.