There is plenty of conversation about what is going wrong in education. Good Day Teacher exists to make more room for what is going right.

Why Good Day Teacher Exists

Spend a few minutes online and you’ll find stories about burnout, behavior problems, testing, staffing shortages, and teachers leaving the profession. Those challenges are real, and they should not be ignored. But they are not the whole story.

Every day, incredible things are happening in classrooms. Students make us laugh. Teachers quietly go above and beyond. Kids overcome challenges, discover what they are capable of, and create moments that remind us why this work matters.

Good Day Teacher was created to give those stories a place to be shared.

The Heart Behind It

Good Day Teacher celebrates the positive, funny, heartwarming, and inspiring moments happening in education while encouraging the people doing this work every day.

At the heart of that mission is the reminder found in Philippians 4:8 to focus on what is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, and praiseworthy.

That is the heart of Good Day Teacher: notice the good, celebrate it, and share it.

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

Philippians 4:8

Meet the Founder

I’m Zach Baxter, a high school teacher and the founder of Good Day Teacher. I created this space to highlight the positive, funny, heartwarming, and inspiring moments that happen in classrooms every day. My hope is that it encourages educators and gives more of the good in education a place to be seen.