To kick off the Campaign for the Common Good, and celebrate the teachers who rock, we're inviting people of all ages to share a story about a teacher who changed their life.
To read about teachers who have made a difference for someone in your area, click the icons on the map below. Below the map, you can also browse all the stories.
I was a fifth grade student when our teacher forever changed the way I looked at learning. He was teaching the math class when he started pressing us for the "reasoning". He kept asking for us to "reason through to the answer" and not just for a response, right or wrong. His… Read More »
Mrs. Hines was the meanest teacher at Washington Drive Junior High School in Fayetteville, NC. She yelled, she fussed, she sent people to the office all the time -- and worst of all, she made us write, write, write. She was my 8th grade English teacher. Every day, we had to write… Read More »
When I was a junior in high school i went to a private girls boarding school in northern New Jersey. Miss Wolfe was the teacher of the advanced English class. She was the best teacher I ever had including college professors ( I have a masters and all but dissertation PHD and… Read More »
Miss Artie Lee Jones was my second grade teacher. She would tell the story about the Three Little Pigs and act out each character with a different sound to her voice. It was the best storytelling that I had ever heard. I loved it! That story was my favorite. I became an… Read More »
A NIGERIAN CHILD. A NIGERIAN TEACHER More than 11 years ago, I was privileged to be under the guidance of a man who altered the course of my life and others with whom I share the same fate. I was a student at Randle Secondary school before the year 2001. We were… Read More »
My son is now 15 years of age, but what Susan Jaggi did for my son was something no money could ever buy. She was able to get him not only to read, but to excel past everyone in his school with maybe only one exception (but that is only a maybe).… Read More »
Our school is considered to be one of the best public high schools in my hometown Banjarmasin, South Borneo. But that was not the case with my homeroom class. We were a bunch of kids whom most of the teachers found "challenging" to say the least. It was the class of naughty,… Read More »
M, as we call him, came to my life in 2001 while he was visiting Dubai. He questioned us, "We are we seeking" and summariesed it to be "in search of Happiness". The dialogue changed my life. His gentle coaxing to find reason of our living, made me dig deeper. Today, when… Read More »
Mrs. Maythumb was my 2nd grade teacher. She made learning really fun! Read More »
I was born, and did my schooling in Malawi, Africa. Two teachers in particular inspired me, one was part of the American Peace Corps, and another was part of the British Voluntary Service Oragnisation (VSO). What they perhaps did not realise is that they allowed me to visualise a world beyond my… Read More »
