Celebrating the Teacher in Me: 21 Years of Service and the Marathon That Finally Lets Us Celebrate
This October, I will mark 21 years in service with the Teachers Service Commission. Twenty one years, long enough that if service were a river, mine would have carved canyons by now. Long enough to have taught the children of children I once taught. Long enough to have moved through transfers, TPAD appraisals, exam seasons, and curriculum reforms from 8-4-4 to CBC; and later, to have walked alongside hundreds more as a field officer, supporting teaching and learning, collecting and analysing education data, writing reports that inform decisions far above the classroom, and running programmes designed to strengthen the very education system I came through. Long enough to have given this nation two decades of quiet, unglamorous, faithful service, the kind no one claps for at the end of a term, the kind that shows up years later in a child who became a doctor, an engineer, or a teacher themselves. So, when I say this year's World Teachers' Day means something different to me, ...
