Kirby Thomas is a librarian and media specialist at McAuliffe Elementary School in Broken Arrow, OK. She was named Teacher of the Year last year for the love and enthusiasm she gives to her children. Ellen DeGeneres has been spotlighting school libraries on her talk show Ellen, and recently surprised Kirby and the McAuliffe students and faculty with a bookmobile filled with books and iPad minis, a check for $25,000, and $75 gift cards for each of the 700 students at McAuliffe Elementary, a Title 1 school.
Enjoy watching this touching moment in the video below.
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Very inspiring to see an exemplary educator being honored for her work. I wish other celebrities, industry, government, school systems etc would follow suit in honoring the thousands of teachers across the US who do similar things daily in their classrooms.