If you are new around here, welcome, and thanks for joining us! On Tuesdays, we publish podcasts about how we’re learning how to better navigate life. During our time on The Amazing Race, we are publishing video and audio recaps of the show. Consider this a crossover event!
This week we interviewed our Amazing Race friends, Sheri and Akbar Cook. We wanted to bring this to you because they are pretty amazing people and have such an inspiring story to tell. I’m going to tell you now, you’ll want to have some tissues on hand for this episode.
If you’re watching this season, Sheri and Akbar had some of my favorite moments of the season despite being eliminated at the end of leg 6. Perhaps you saw Sheri and Akbar snap at each other a few times, but I’m here to tell you they are a loving couple who have been together for 23 years. We became good friends with them during our travels and we got to know a whole different side of them than what you saw on TV. We were so humbled by their story of leadership and love, and we wanted them to be able to share some of the work they have done in their community.
As married educators from New Jersey, they are literally creating hope and saving the lives of kids through their after-school program, Lights On. Through their incredible leadership, they put a system in place to take care of problems that most of us take for granted every single day. From providing food to washing laundry, they are tearing down barriers so that kids in their school can focus on just being kids.
Parent-Teacher Partnership
More than ever, parents today realize how important teachers are to our children as many of us unexpectedly took on this role in a new way over the past 2 years. We asked Sheri and Akbar what it means to be a teacher and educational leader right now, and what parents need to know to best support our children and our educators.
