"From the thorn bush comes forth the rose." - Old Jewish Proverb

Rose #1: 11th grade students did well on a practice multiple-choice SOL test. Only one would have failed, and I'm already working with that student after school to get her caught up.

Rose #2: Our Key Club is doing a fundraiser for the earthquake victims in Haiti. Today, two of my students, one who isn't even involved in Key Club, took the initative to make signs and designate a bulletin board in my room as the place where we'll hang the stars we're selling. Once they had done that, all of the other students got really excited about the fundraiser and were talking about how much money they're going to bring in. Those two students did a great job getting everything organized and getting kids fired up!

I hope you stopped to smell the roses today.