Celebrating Honors
September 20, 2014 by margaretsmn
Ruth Ayres invites us the celebrate each week. Click over to her site Discover. Play. Build. to read more celebrations.
I am pleased, honored, amazed to announce that I am the 2014 recipient of the NCTE Donald Graves Award for the teaching of writing. The award will be presented to me on Thursday, Nov. 20th in Washington, D.C. at the Elementary Section Get-Together during the annual convention. Follow this link to see my name in lights and a link to my reflective essay. I owe a huge shout out to all of my blogging friends who have supported me in the development of my teaching philosophy. I am so blessed to be a part of this supportive community.
Minga, my mother-in-law, sent me flowers to celebrate the Donald Graves Award.
I want to celebrate the outpouring of love and compassion from the kidlit blogosphere in expressing sympathy for my student Emily’s loss of her mother this week. I will be attending the funeral today and sharing with Emily your messages. Amy VanDerwater of The Poem Farm shared a poem yesterday that was inspired by my post about Emily. Emily and I are both touched by this kindness. Visit Amy’s site to read her special poem of empathy.
WOO HOO!!!!! YIPPPEEEE!!!!!! What an honor…and a deserved one at that!! 🙂 (Selfishly, I’m so excited because you’ll be at NCTE and we get to meet IN PERSON!!!!) Congratulations to an amazing writer and teacher and friend!
Thanks for all those cartwheels in punctuation. I can’t wait to meet in person.
Congratulations Margaret! You are so deserving! I have said many times how you are the champion of the arts! I truly believe that and now many other people will get to know that as well. What a wonderful honor!
This is reason to celebrate! I am so pleased for you and especially happy that I will be at that gathering and will be able to meet you F2F.
Yay! Can’t wait to meet!
I just saw about your award on FB, Margaret. Congratulations many times over. As I said, from all that you share about students, even this past week about Emily’s tragic loss, shows that you instill the love of writing into your students’ lives so that they will remember how important to their lives it is. So happy for you! And, my thoughts and prayers to your student, and to all of you on this sad day saying goodbye. I saw someone wrote that on such a day it doesn’t matter the words, just that you are there. And I know you are!
Linda, you have been such a huge support for me. I took your words with me because I just stood on the side within sight of Emily. She knew I was there. Presence is everything in this situation.
Congratulations! Palju õnne! Your post shows both the joy and the sadness. I am sorry for your student’s loss.
Such joy and sadness at once. You are most deserving of this award. I just received Blessen in mail. I ordered it because I respect you so much. Can’t wait to read it.
So sorry to hear of your student’s loss. Glad she has you and most likely many others.
I hope you enjoy Blessen. She is still close to my heart, like a 4th daughter or something. Will I meet you at NCTE?
Those flowers are beautiful! I’m so excited for you – what a great honor and well-deserved! Emily is blessed to have you for her teacher, and how kind of Amy to send her the book of her poetry.
i am so excited FOR you and gee whiz, I am excited to even know you! Congratulations. Donald Graves, who I met only once in person, but spent many a virtual hour with, was the vision of writing as we now know it to be. You, who I have yet to meet in person, yet connect with every week, are certainly the vision of writing in 2014.
What a beautiful comment! I cherish the words “vision of writing in 2014.” It feels weird to put this persona on. Yet, I feel validated for the work I do and want to continue to share and learn with others like you. Thanks.