Originally published on the I Earned It Blog. Five Tips for Celebrating Teachers It’s that time of the year again: Teacher Appreciation Week! Teacher Appreciation Week wasn’t always an entire week; it wasn’t until 1953, when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt persuaded Congress to dedicate a day to celebrating teachers, that National Teacher Day was started. Then, in 1984 the National Parent-Teacher Association expanded the holiday to the entire first week of May. So this year, the National Education Association wants us to do three things, tell teachers, “We will listen to them, we will stand with them, and together we will take action so that every student has a teacher…