Teachers are some of the most hard working, inspirational, heroic, and invaluable people in the world today — and they deserve the raises they’re fighting for.

I remember all too well the good friend who was thrilled that she’d gotten a job teaching public school kindergarten, then proceeded to tell me how she had rescued tables and chair from the roadside, then cleaned and painted them so her students would have places to sit and work. Another teacher in the same system told me how much of her small paycheck she used every month to buy paper and other supplies for her students to use. It’s not a bit uncommon.

Here’s an example of an especially inspirational teacher who knows that children learn best with a beat.

Maybe we all need to start our day this way.

By the way, if you let this video roll over to the next one, you will see another kind of dancing that will have you howling with laugher.