When I read the first line of the email that nominated Tara Denning for Teacher Tuesday, I knew I had found my winner.

Mrs. Denning is by far the greatest teacher of all time.

Greatest of all time. It's a category that can always start a discussion. Cobb or Ruth? Ali or Tyson? Gretzky or Lemieux? Denning or...? I'm not sure who else goes into the immortal annals of greatest of all time for middle school teachers, but if this one did anything that made anyone believe the words "greatest of all time" so much that they wrote them to us, I wanted to meet her.

The letter continued, and related how Mrs. Denning inspired the nominator (Jaxyn Melby, featured in the video), to aspire to greatness.

Again, this is huge. Some of my teachers in high school taught me important things. I can't think of one that instilled in me a belief that I could be great. Some were encouraging. Many were intriguing, and bolstered my curiosity. Inspired greatness? No. I wasn't so lucky.

Since Lucile Erwin Middle School is so lucky, I wanted to feel at least a part of that energy. When I arrived, and her mom and husband were there with flowers and support, I knew we nailed it on another Teacher Tuesday.

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