This document discusses the importance of seeing students' strengths rather than weaknesses, and creating an environment where all students feel believed in and capable of success. It suggests teachers will find in their students what they look for, and encourages taking a strengths-based approach to help students recognize their own abilities so they feel empowered to achieve their dreams, no matter their background or challenges.

1. In your classroom

2. A child of
poverty from
Nashville,
Tennessee?

4. An English
language learner
from
Milwaukee?

6. A child that
speaks and
reads behind
his peers?

8. A student who is
“fair in
arithmetic,
weak in
handwriting”?

10. A child who
needs more
time to do
tasks?

12. A student who
requires more
time to finish
class work?

14. An awkward boy?

16. An awkward girl?

18. A child sent
away by her
parents?

20. A child who
aspired to be
the class
clown?

22. An intensely
stubborn
girl?

24. A student who
dreams of
becoming a
professional
tennis player?

26. A student
born into
poverty?

28. A student
with seemingly
unrealistic
dreams?

30. A child who sees
things
differently from
others?

32. A child who
does not follow
the rules?

34. A child who can
hardly read or
write but speaks
in poetry?

36. A child who is
bored and almost
drops out of
school?

38. A child whose
teacher said he’d
never amount to
anything because he
couldn’t focus?

40. A child
with
dyslexia?

43. A child
raised by
grandparents?

45. We often
find in others

46. exactly what
we look for.

47. This year . . .

48. Who will you
see?

49. Teach our students to
believe in themselves…
Help them recognize
their strengths…

50. Never forget that the teacher
is the single most important
factor in the classroom…
Schools and caring educators
with high expectations do
make a difference.

51. Once you
choose hope,
anything's
possible. ?
-Christopher
Reeve