Students at a Verizon Innovative Learning middle school credit their educators with helping them succeed in class and inspiring future careers.
To celebrate educators for Teacher Appreciation Week, we asked students to share the many ways their teachers have inspired and supported them, in the classroom and beyond.
Gerardo Favela, a 6th grade student at Sylmar Leadership Academy in Los Angeles, was recently reclassified, moving from English language learner to English proficiency. The middle schooler, whose first language is Spanish, was speaking his second language with ease after several years.
Favela’s gains are impressive. How did he ramp up to proficiency? Without a device and plenty of reading, “I would not have learned English that quick,” Favela says. The 6th grader credits his teachers with encouraging him to read regularly on his device. “I want to thank—and give a big shout out—to all my teachers, because each class requires reading, and that’s what really helped me,” he says.
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