Welcome back to Connect FCS Ed, I am so thankful that you're able to listen in.

So, we have just embarked on our virtual journey into education, this week has been a week of many firsts. This week we have learned a lot, but this week, I have seen more collaboration and more people helping one another than I have seen in a long time.

I may only be in my fourth year as a public education servant, but my children have been in their career of education for years, and the amount of people coming together, extending their services and offering how they can help, and giving and sharing tips and suggestions and advice, it has been fueling my soul.

I am enamored and I am overwhelmed by kindness and generosity. I try really hard to look at the good when there is so much hardship and pain and struggles as we navigate this tight rope of a balance that we have to teeter on. But this week, we had our students for the first time, and we had to dig deep and we had to put in all of the knowledge and all of the resources and all of the preparation that we have been trying to muster and put together, we had to put it to the test.

We had to put that theory into practice, those methods, and let me tell you, it paid off. You can prepare and prepare and prepare as much as you possibly can, and you are never going to be fully prepared to take that first step off of the ledge. But you had to believe in yourself, and that is what I am so in awe of, you believed in yourself. Therefore, you could. You believed in what you had done was good enough, even if you didn't think you would be able to pull it off, but you did, and that is something to celebrate.

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