Returning to school can be nerve-wracking, but I want to remind students that a new school year can be an an opportunity for a lot of great things, too. I use my bulletin board as a way to reiterate that not every year is the same and that our students have the amazing power to grow as students and, more important, as kind people.
—Kimberly Dowd, school counselor, PS 95, Gravesend, Brooklyn
