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.
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
From the first time I met her, until today we have had a special bond. Dr. Jame Moore, Dean of Science and Math at Texas Wesleyan University was a teacher that changed my life. I was a returning college student and she took me in as if I belonged their. Whenever I… Read More »
Her name was Karen Riordan. She was the beginning of my newly discovered self-confidence. I am originally from South Carolina, and when I was 11, my mother and I moved to Connecticut. I was way more developed than many of the girls in my middle school, and also a little more over… Read More »
I tell this story out of awe and gratitude. I never had a teacher like Mrs. Decker, but so wish I had. I believe if I had, my life would look quite different now. I share this in hopes that more schools will provide what she offers to help motivate and empower… Read More »
Mr D , my son and I call him at home.But he is Mr. Darvell at Conally Elementary School. What a superior teacher! He worked magic on my son. My son is in the 5th grade and was reading on a 3rd grade reading level but Mr. Davell got him and reconstucted… Read More »
My geometry teacher in Upper Darby, PA in the 1960s used to sing the theorems. His name just happened to be Mr. Sholly. He was a bit rotund, and we called him Jolly Sholly. Read More »
My 6th grade pe teacher Coach Dodsen has changed the way that I play basketball because he always plays with us and challenges us and teaches us how to do something if we get it wrong and helps us and really interacts with us and really gets to know us and he… Read More »