We know you're already pretty much at the top of your educating game here—you're putting in the one-on-one time, you're meeting families, you're...well, you're reading this (gracias, by the way). But have you ever wondered how else you're having an effect as an educator? No doubt helping your kiddos fully realize their potential or learn to love doing for themselves is an awesome feat all by itself. However, you're also making a deeper brain-training sort of difference to the TXGU'ers in your immediate area just by being your amazing skill-teaching self—even to kids you're not working with directly. 

What kind of halo-effect, new-agey thing are we talking about? Nothing at all, as it happens—this is all hard and heartwarming fact. In a nutshell, seeing good deeds getting done creates a wealth of positive feelings—not only in the doer and the recipient, but also in anyone who happens to be nearby taking it all in. We'd normally say it makes our hearts full, but as science knows, the reaction is actually happening in our brains. It's basically why websites like Upworthy are so popular: We literally get a happy buzz from watching good people doing good things. Check out the research on how altruism affects an audience, and go forth knowing that you're changing your students' minds for the better in more way than one. Go, you!