Tuesdays With Teachers Who Pray Archives

With Covid-19, Teachers Need IEPs Too

By Teresa Siegrist

IEP. Individualized Education Plan. Teachers and clinicians create this legal document for students with special learning needs, detailing specially designed instruction, testing accommodations, and goals. What is delineated in the paperwork determines the parameters of support for each student–the how, when, and where of what will be done to meet the student’s needs. The IEP is the ‘bible’ as I do my work as a paraprofessional in Special Education.

3 Contemplative Practices to Integrate into Your Daily Teaching Rhythms

By Diane Miller

I have supported Teachers Who Pray as a parent advocate for over a decade, deeply believing in the life-changing goodness that teachers can bring into a child’s life. As a lifelong Christian, I also believe in the power of uniting in prayer to engage our God and promote community unity for the common good of all humans.

Let’s Take Teacher Appreciation Week to a Higher Level

By Marilyn Rhames

If you’ve been a teacher long enough, you may have come to expect a few goodies from students and families this week, Teacher Appreciation Week. And if you’re a mother who also happens to be a teacher, the love fest tends to continue past Friday as the following Sunday is usually Mother’s Day. Since women make up more than 80 percent of the teaching workforce, this is a big week for female educators!

You Can Still Find The Good In God

By Andrea Parker

Covid-19 has spread like gossip. The majority of businesses are closed. Schools are empty. More than six million of America’s workforce have been fired, furloughed or laid off. And the numbers continue to rise. Over a hundred thousand abrupt deaths have caused grief in homes which most are confined due to social distancing mandates. Heartbreak, inconvenience, and fear of the unexpected future is painted all over our faces as we tread in unchartered water.

When I Don’t Understand

By Eunice Hernandez, MSW

April 17, 2020, Governor J. B. Pritzker announced the closing for all schools in Illinois. I knew this was going to be the next step. I expected it. I was prepared to hear the announcement. I knew it was coming…

So why did I feel so incredibly sad?

Destiny Discovered & Defined During Destruction

By Shanay Jones

Could the scariest and most defining time in my life be what I had been requesting in my prayers? As a leader of the prayer team at my school and pastor of my own ministry, I had experienced the first panic attack of my life when coronavirus greeted the world with its ugly face. My heart would quiver when I saw the news or even see the picture of the virus.

Created For Such A Time As This

By Katrina Murphy

It was about a month ago when my Teachers Who Pray (TWP) co-leader and I were waiting for our team to assemble for our weekly meeting and none of our colleagues had shown up to pray.

Hope amid empty hallways

By Doris Negron

Empty hallways
Empty classrooms
Empty lunchrooms

Honoring MLK Jr.’s Drum Major Legacy

A speech delivered by Marilyn Rhames at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s death at the US Department of Education on April 3, 2018 Two months before his death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a powerful…

TWP Teachers Are Armed With the Weapon of Prayer

The Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that killed 17 students and teachers was tragic and horrific. Sadly, in the week since the massacre there has been a rash of threats posted on social…