With Teacher Appreciation Week forthcoming, today’s episode is very simple in its concept: sharing one good story from the classroom that is really two good stories—along with a reflection on why these stories mattered.

A core belief with this Broken Copier project continues to be the importance of sharing and uplifting the good stories in our classrooms and schools.

Given that, here’s an invitation: what is a good story from your school year?

Seriously—if you have a story you’d be willing to share, go for it! Here are three ways:

* As always, feel free to share in the comments!

* If you want, you can also head over to Edutopia’s new Teacher2Teacher page, where I’ve posted the same invitation.

* Or, if you’re open to leaving it in audio form, I’d definitely love to include it in a future episode! Here is a link where you can do just that.

Thanks, as always, to Alberto Lugo, one of Jim’s former students, for writing and recording original intro music; and Tom Csatari for allowing us to use his band’s recording of “Woodstock” from their 2020 album, Garden.

* Find Tom’s work at uncivilizedtom.com, and on Instagram @banduncivilized.

* Find Alberto’s work at djsynchro.weebly.com, and on Instagram @djsynchro.

You can email us here with feedback or any other questions as well: [email protected].

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