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My Beginning of the Year Prayer

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It is time! The 2021-22 school year is just around the corner. We are coming off the hardest school year we have ever encountered. While we long for normal, we know that we are not out of the woods just yet. Entering this school year, we will still have to monitor numbers, quarantine students, and work diligently to ensure the safety of our students and staff.  We have all spent more time at home over the past 18 months than ever before. At the Johnson house, we have begun the process of digitizing all of our old VHS home videos. We are finding such lost treasures! This past week, we discovered a special video from June 18, 1994 - our wedding. I was one of the special little girls who had the privilege of her father performing my marriage ceremony. It was such an emotional event! My Dad had to give me the written ceremony a week in advance so I could desensitize myself to the meaningful words in an effort to avoid an extreme emotional breakdown during the ceremony! As I was watchin...
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Public Schools and Icebergs

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Take a walk through Clinton City Schools and this is what you will see. Teachers smiling, greeting students at the door. Students smiling and laughing in the classrooms. Laughter fills the cafeteria. Giggles and screams are heard on the playground. Mid-year benchmark data shows that students are making incredible gains. From the outside, it seems to be flowing flawlessly with little effort. Icebergs. They are beautiful structures - a large piece of ice, floating effortlessly and beautifully in the ocean water. People pay large amounts of money to hop on a cruise ship to absorb their beauty on Alaskan cruises. Viewers can only see one-fourth of the iceberg. Three-fourths of the structure remains hidden under the dark ocean water, not visible to the observer's eye. However, this foundation is a key component to the beauty of the visible piece of ice - providing the mechanism for it to float effortlessly. Public schools across the state of TN began the work in early May of intensely p...
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