Welcoming teachers back to school

Before students started filtering back into classes, school districts were welcoming their teachers back for another academic year. And they did that this year in a variety of ways.

I recently reported on the Winthrop school district, where a 1984 graduate addressed a crowd of teachers on their first day back. Rick Dyer told audience members -- some of whom taught him when he was a student -- how the educational footing he received in Winthrop set him on the path to Stanford, and, later, to Boston, where he operates a multi-million dollar print production business with his twin brother.

There's at least one back-to-school welcome that's making waves nationally this year.

In Dallas, 10-year-old student Dalton Sherman addressed an auditorium of 17,000 teachers and school district staff members with a rousing speech in late August. According to the Dallas Morning News, the fifth grader's speech left thousands of teachers cheering, and many others in tears.

Here's the YouTube video of Dalton's performance, courtesy of my mother, a teacher who was shown the video on her first day back this year.