I’m sitting at the gate in Detroit with a few hours to kill so this seems like the perfect time to make my thank you’s to everyone who has made this trip possible. I am on my way to South Africa with as an NEA Foundation Global Learning Fellow. Of course I have to thank my principal, Beth Howell for her encouragement of outside the box thinking and her adherence to doing what is best for our students. I also need to thank Maya Aldas and Joe Parret who took outside the box thinking and showed me how to put it into practice. The late Ray Theilacker , Barbara Prillaman, Kathy Gormley, Trish Hermance and everyone else involved in the Delaware Teachers Institute. My participation in the Institute has given me the confidence to apply for opportunities such as this. I also need to thank whoever at the NEA Foundation read my application and thought me a worthy addition to this all star cast of educators (seriously, look at what they’ve accomplished, its mind blowing). Lastly I need to thank my wife, Merry, who, once again, has let me slip the leash of domestic duties to go off on some adventure (and whose idea it was that I become a teacher but that’s another story). And, finally an apology to my traveling companion Betsy, I am sure my jokes and stories will get old and I apologize in advance.
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Betsy and I at the gate in Detroit.