I'm not one for Hallmark verses, so consider this: I know you well enough as a professional and as a father to say that I would love for you to be my daughter's teacher next year or in the future. It would be a privilege and rockin' fun to be one of your teammates. It is criminal to think that creative, intentional and life-changing work from a person who truly cares about children and their vital learning communities can be judged by poor measurement tools combined with red-card worthy misuse of statistics and data. Your work and your place in the lives of children will always trump dead data from questionable outside sources. You are a rockstar...join our tour bus any day! (And not as a roadie....) Andrea