When Haley Benefield was a girl, her mother used to talk about the students in her classroom as “her kids.” Haley couldn’t understand why, until the day Haley became a teacher herself. Now with students of her own, Haley gets the importance – and magic of the role she plays as an educator to her own “kids."

“I have learned more from the students I teach than perhaps what they have learned from me.” – Haley Benefield

Read Haley’s post on the 5 big lessons she’s learned from teaching every day.