每年的10月5日，我们庆祝世界教师节。每年，我们都向我们的教师致以敬意和感谢，感谢他们对学生学习的重要贡献。今年，全球的主题是“教师：在危机中引领，重新构想未来”。

但今年，这种认可似乎并没有真正捕捉到教师（以及所有支持他们的人员）为确保每个孩子每天都在学习所做的广度和深度。疫情改变了一切，并且显著增加了世界各地教育工作者面临的挑战。

教师正在教授在发生了重大变化或处于新的虚拟空间中的实体教室中。他们正在弥补被片段化学习所耽误的数月时间，并确保弱势群体不会被落下，同时管理着令人眼花缭乱的不断变化的健康措施，以确保每个人的安全和健康。

以下是 Alma Harris 和 Michelle Jones (School Leadership & Management) 的一篇文章中的几句引语，生动地描绘了我们的学校每天都面临的新现实：

“对于在这种苛刻而混乱的环境下工作的学校领导者来说，压力是无休止的，选择是有限的，无眠的夜晚频繁出现。组织会议、与同事们喝咖啡、在走廊上聊天，这些组成了学校日常的活动全都消失了。

“父母、学生和教师现在处于一个黄昏般的教育世界中，不是等待正常服务的恢复，就是希望能有一些新的常态，能够提供稳定、连续和安抚。残酷的现实是，这两者在短时间内都不太可能发生。”

虽然这些变化确实反映了我们当前的现实，但学校的开放也创造了一种新的希望和乐观情绪。学校在帮助我们的社会运转、为家庭生活带来稳定和常态化方面从未扮演如此重要的角色。这将对我们的学生和整个社会的未来产生重大影响，不容小觑。

感谢您选择从事教学工作，并在全球大流行病的前线继续努力。您的激情和奉献仍然在一个急需希望的世界中闪耀。

对于我们的教师和所有支持教师工作的人员，我们对您表示钦佩、尊重和全力支持。

此致，

​​Every year on Oct. 5, we celebrate World Teachers’ Day. And every year, we celebrate and thank our teachers for their important contributions to student learning. This year, the global theme is “Teachers: Leading in crisis, reimagining the future.”

But this year, this recognition doesn’t seem to truly capture the depth and breadth of what teachers – as well as all those who support them – are doing to ensure each child is learning every day. The pandemic has changed everything, and significantly added to the challenges already faced by educators around the world.

Teachers are teaching in physical classrooms that have changed significantly or are in new virtual spaces. They are catching up from months of fragmented learning and ensuring vulnerable populations do not get left behind, all while managing a dizzying array of ever-changing health measures to keep everyone safe and healthy.

A couple of quotes from an article written by Alma Harris and Michelle Jones (School Leadership & Management) paint a vivid picture of what the new reality is in our schools each day:

“For school leaders working in these demanding and chaotic circumstances, the pressure is relentless, the options are limited, the sleepless night are frequent. The staff meetings, coffee catch ups and corridor chats with colleagues, that made up a school day, have gone.

“Parents, students, and teachers now exist in a twilight education world either awaiting the return of normal service or hoping for some new normal that might offer stability, continuity, and reassurance. The stark reality is that neither is likely to occur anytime soon.”

While these changes may indeed reflect our current reality, the opening of schools has also created a new sense of hope and optimism. Schools have never played a more vital role in helping our society to function and in bringing back the beginnings of stability and normalcy to the lives of our families. The impact this will have on the future of our students and our society as a whole cannot be underestimated.

Thank you for choosing to teach, and for continuing to do so on the front lines of a global pandemic. Your passion and dedication continues to shine in a world that badly needs a beacon of hope.

To our teachers, and all those staff who support the work of teachers, you have our admiration, respect and unreserved support.

Sincerely,