In advance of the annual St. Baldrick's event sponsored by the NHS Bears Beating Cancer Club, I have shaved off 11 inches of hair. My choice to shave ahead of the public fundraiser in June is primarily so I can walk as a visual billboard to inspire others to either become a fellow shavee or to now consider donating to an already amazing cause. Particularly as educators, we are challenged daily with helping our students concentrate on learning despite the myriad of academic, social/emotional and economic stressors they bring into the classrooms. While most of these concerns are relatively manageable, we likely find ourselves at a loss when our training and experience are ill-matched for the perils of a cancer diagnosis.

I petition you now to help by making a donation on behalf of not only the thousands of nameless infants, children, teens, and young adults fighting childhood cancers throughout the world but also as a pledge of support in honor or memory of that current or former student, that coworker, that parent, that sibling, that spouse or that child either within your school or within your own family whose life has forever been changed by some version of this horrific disease. So while many have remarked: "It's just hair; it'll grow back" let us never become complacent in the realization that someone somewhere is losing yet another strand that they will never see again.....please give what you can. I thank you in advance ♡♡♡