“5 October is a day to celebrate teachers and the central role they play in guiding children, youths & adults through the life-long learning process. This year, World Teachers’ Day will focus on the role of teachers within the context of the global financial and economic crisis and the need to invest in teachers now as a means to secure post-crisis regeneration.

It is critical, during these difficult times, to seek mechanisms that protect the teaching profession. It is also crucial, despite the crisis, to ensure that investment in teachers is sufficient and proportionate to the demands made upon them. It is the teaching force with its knowledge, experience and foresight which can bring new insights to global solutions. Join us in celebrating this!”  

From World Teachers’ Day 2009  http://www.5oct.org/

In honor of World Teachers’ Day:

A GivStory by Matthew Mandelbaum | Teacher and Founder of Jumping Joey’s Number Line

It began as a quest to help a small kindergarten girl, who they said could not learn math because she has too many severe learning disabilities. The quest was to prove them all wrong and give her a chance to have a strong mathematical foundation where she could love learning. 

On the streets on New York City’s Washington Square Park, I began teaching her in the method which would become JumpingJoey’s NumberLine and her passion and interest grew as would her success with numbers. This led its growth to helping summer school students and others until now the learning system can be found on www.jumpingjoeysnumberline.com.

In honor of those who have helped me, the children, I give back 5% of all home product sales to schools along with student certificates honoring their love of and commitment to learning so that each child has a chance to feel good about their process and path as a learner.