I’m the Tin Man. I always had a heart but I never knew it. It took people like Susan Gross and Blaine Ray and Laurie Clarcq and Jason Fritze to remind me of it, and to show me how to become real in my classroom. I am the Tin Man and I am the Velveteen Rabbit. I’m all of it.
I am so happy to no longer be stuck by the side of the road waiting, waiting for Dorothy (Susan Gross) and the Lion (Blaine Ray) and the Scarecrow (Jason Fritze) to come by and make my teaching real with their oil can.
I am so happy that those guys came along. Now I am doing real things in my classroom. Real things.
Related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-RHfXZkT1g