It was the end of the school day, and I was tired. I grabbed a pile of about 130 exam papers to 1 on the train ride home. I'd bring them back the next morning.
My principal（校长）pushed her head into my classroom and said, "Friendly 2 ! You need to make sure your word wall is 3 by tomorrow morning." She then moved on to the next classroom to 4 the message. I sighed and thought, "Are you making a（n）5 ? What a waste of my time!"
My principal was 6 about making our school beautiful, while my goal was to get my students to pass the Algebra Regents Exam. She wanted every classroom to have a word wall, where student's works on creative projects would be 7 . She brought in beautiful planters（花盆）that 8 the hallways with greenery. However, I assume that school and classroom 9 aren't important when it comes to learning. To me, spending time and money making our school and classrooms beautiful was just a distraction（使人分心的事）. Those things don't 10 my students with math.
However, after three years of teaching, I went to graduate school in part to study how resources 11 teachers and students. What my research found 12 me: When teachers 13 their classroom environment resources, their students did better on standardized tests. My principal was 14 . She was creating more than just a beautiful 15 —she was building a welcoming and positive environment for students to learn and teachers to work.