Purposeful Perspiration

We have done a lot of sweating the last few days! They have been days full of purpose and meaning.
Each morning we met with about 75 teachers, from both our school and others, for professional development. Some of them spent hours each way getting into town and back again, because traffic has gotten so bad. What commitment they have shown!
I have really been humbled to think of all these teachers have come through, to think that I have something of value to share. We worked well as a team though.
We have covered topics from critical thinking and project based learning to classroom management and Bible in the classroom. With our connecting idea of the Environment and cleaning up garbage in Liberia it all worked together. They were very excited by the pictures Lake George students created in Photoshop to show what their community could look like if the trash was cleaned up. It was great to see some of their creative minds ignite with vision for how they could grow their classroom strategies.

After these exciting mornings we took a short break and then headed into the library to get it ready for students to really use the books. It was very discouraging to see the layers of dust collecting on these beautiful books, but it has really come together, and tomorrow we will open it up to train teachers and students on how to really use them. We have pocketed, labelled, and leveled 919 books!
I cannot wait to share pictures with you all of the before and after. It will be such a blessing to see kids in there tomorrow.