Comments on: How Loving Relationships with Students Can Foster Loving Adults https://strobeleducation.com/blog/students-who-are-loved-turn-into-loving-adults/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:17:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Kim Strobel https://strobeleducation.com/blog/students-who-are-loved-turn-into-loving-adults/#comment-15 Fri, 29 Sep 2017 21:33:05 +0000 https://strobeleducation.com/?p=18702#comment-15 In reply to Lynne Farmer.

Oh my goodness. I love this story, Lynne! And “Welcome to Success” is a wonderful way to greet them. Thank you for sharing this heartwarming story!

]]> By: Lynne Farmer https://strobeleducation.com/blog/students-who-are-loved-turn-into-loving-adults/#comment-14 Thu, 28 Sep 2017 18:02:46 +0000 https://strobeleducation.com/?p=18702#comment-14 One of my favorite stories is about a young man I had last year. Each day as students entered my math class, I would say, “Welcome to Success!” Keynen was very bright and quite frankly, I did not think I had anything to teach him. He knew his math very well and often challenged me with questions that would stretch him a little more each day. At the end of the year, his ELA teacher gave them the assignment to write a thank you note to a teacher. Keynen wrote me and thanked me for my daily invitation to success. He said he had learned more from my life lessons when other students didn’t want to learn or didn’t complete assignments. (I tend to show them how that looks in the real world), and then he wrote, “I know you were not just spouting off words to us because when you said “Welcome to Success” you meant it and gave us all you had every single day! –A big wow for me because I felt like I had struggled ALL YEAR LONG and didn’t have much to offer–especially the “Can Do” kids.
I let him know how his note blessed me.
PS Sorry I didn’t get to attend your PD this week. I asked, but it was not granted to me, although 2 others went. They told me how awesome you were with Growth Mindset! Keep up the fight!

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