And yet, we cannot wait until tomorrow. Every child must read well. Every child must experience success. Every child must be personally and socially responsible. Every child must be able to experience the joys of childhood, of dignity and of being valued and loved for who they are.
Every day is our students' future.
Their future is now. In these coming months, we need to continue to work very deliberately to look at our beliefs and practices and this involves teachers in the classroom, administrators and staff in schools, and employees in the district office. Each of us has to think about how we can do our work differently to help bring about the change in order for every child to be successful, to close that achievement gap. The smile on a student's face, that outreached grasp to hold your hand, the sparkle in their eyes, and the knowing look that you care about me, that is what transcends our differences. We must continue to insure that we look deep inside and remind ourselves that the differences that exist between individuals or groups are negligible in light of what binds us together.