The Huffington Post – Rebecca Klein & Marcos Saldivar
“The 2015 National Teacher of the Year said she thinks now is a great time to into education, even though she acknowledged many challenges educators today face…Unlike her peer and mentor Nancie Atwell, who was honored this year with an award that has been dubbed the “Nobel Prize of teaching,” Peeples thinks “now is the time” to go into teaching…”I understand why [Atwell] said what she said and in context, that she felt there was a lot of pressure on teachers,” Peeples said. “I’m going to take the exact other [approach]. I don’t think that there’s a better time to go in. I think now is the time you want to do it, especially if you’re young and you want to make a difference and you’re idealistic.” “To me,” she continued, “there’s nothing more meaningful than teaching.””(more)