UIL thoughts: Why we teach

UIL conference at UT Austin. Hundreds of high school theatre students everywhere. I helped teach a class on bilingual theatre with my amazing professor. I had one of those moments teachers have maybe once or twice a year, if you're lucky, that sustains you for the next six months of difficult students. I walked over to a pair of students working on a scene. I had noticed the young man struggled with stuttering when he was sharing his thoughts with us earlier. However, when he read from a script and when he performed...the stutter was completely gone. When they reached the end, the young man reached out, grabbed my hand, and whispered, "I love this."