Teachers have the profound ability to impact how children grow up and who they grow up to be.
The effect that your teachers can have on your self esteem, work ethic, and overall sense of self isn't talked about as much as it should be.
It only takes one teacher who believes in you to teach you to believe in yourself.
You can just feel a difference of energy in a classroom, regardless of whether we're talking about kindergarten or senior year.
When a teacher walks in and is excited about what they teach, it makes the students excited. When a teacher very obviously respects their students, they are much more likely to respect them back.
It isn't new news that visual, creative, and dramatic arts are underrepresented and underfunded in most public school systems.
Art is an important form of self expression for a lot of people, especially for children, who may not know how to fully express their emotions vocally.
Rebecca Bonner, a teacher at Mcauliffe Elementary School in Highland Village, Texas, frequently speaks to other elementary school teachers in Facebook groups where they share new classroom tips and inspiration for projects.
She came across a particular post about kids decorating shirts with fabric markers that sparked an incredible idea.
"I got fabric markers and sharpies," Rebecca Bonner told Good Morning America, "I laid out my dress for two weeks and just let them doodle on it."
As the school's resident art teacher, she teaches more than 580 students from ages 3-11, so that's the kind of artistic range we're looking at here.
"Being their teacher dressed up in their doodles is always fun," she said, explaining that she's always incredibly proud of her students, so it was an amazing opportunity to be able to wear her pride for their work physically so she could show everyone how wonderful it was.
"My mom is the cutest art teacher ever!" she wrote, "She made a dress and had every one of her students draw one thing on the dress for her to wear. This was her at her student’s art show tonight. I'M SOBBING."
Bonner says that she never expected the pictures to go viral.
"I’m not worried about being famous or anything like that," she explained, "but I do think it's great to promote the arts, because elementary art is not everywhere,."
Her daughter Lake says that her mother's dedication inspires her everyday, especially as she is going to college to become a teacher.
"I think she just inspires students to be creative and just make their mistakes into something beautiful."
h/t: GMA
