Teaching is About Relationships
Dr. Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917-2005), influential and groundbreaking professor of child development (Cornell University), psychologist and co-founder of the Federal Head Start program in the US said:
"Every kid requires someone in his or her life who is absolutely crazy about them."
The more encouraging and positive and concerned important people in the child's life are, the more positive the outcome for that child's development.
And of course teachers are important people in the lives of children.
Here is Rita Pierson's version of this message
“Every child deserves a champion—an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.”