November 18
Today I am at the teacher forum in Chester County and I am meeting with a small group of dedicated teachers. I know they are dedicated because it is dreary and rainy outside. In addition, most of the teachers had Monday and Tuesday afterschool meetings, making this the third day in a row that they have had an afterschool meeting. Thanksgiving break is less than a week away too. Yep, they are dedicated. I believe that an Elvis resurrection concert tour would not have sold out under these circumstances.
I know the feeling. It is the same feeling you get when you are in oxygen debt during the last 100 meters of a 400 meter race. Your muscles ache and a ring of dark clouds form around the outer edges of your eyes as if they are about to slowly fade to black. But if you want to win you have to keep your eyes on the finish line and keep driving.
It is hard at this time of the year to keep your students driving when they want to relax the last 50 meters. I have seen many a race lost because a person relaxed at the end while another competitor pushed through to the end. So keep pushing until the race is done!
"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."
Vince Lombardi
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