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Teacher Appreciation Week: How Do You Show Teachers You Care?

Teachers at Lucas Elementary in Iowa City are greeted with chalk drawings and descriptions of how they help students.

 

This week is Teacher Appreciation Week, and Tuesday is Teacher Appreciation Day.

Show appreciation for your favorite teachers by posting a picture to the article, or thank them in the comment section below.

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Blogger Amy Weisberg writes that she thinks teacher appreciation shouldn't be confined to one week or one day.

Teacher Appreciation Week is a week teachers look forward to and treasure but more frequent acts of appreciation and gratitude would be a welcome addition. There is a saying that those who can't do, teach, yet really teachers have to be prepared to do many things: teach, educate and advise parents and students, nurture, create, listen, comfort and learn. Teachers do all of this for a salary that makes pleasures like owning a home, traveling, enriching their own children's lives and providing for their own children's college studies, difficult.

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