Showing Up for Students (with Laurie Smith)

In this episode, National Rural Teacher of the Year, Laurie Smith, dives in to the importance of showing up for students each and every day. Laurie shares a story of how a tragedy altered the course of her teaching career and mindset and how the event that happened decades prior renewed her purpose for the work.

Laurie Smith, 2021 National Rural Teacher of the Year, Sumner-Eddyville-Miller School District (NE) 
Twitter: @LaurieSmith1995

Host: Thomas C. Murray
Director of Innovation
Future Ready Schools
Washington, DC
Twitter: @thomascmurray

Audio Credit: MB01GN29HGUXKKK

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