Once a student, now a teacher. This beautiful message and related hashtag (#onceastudentnowateacher) have been filling up our Instagram and Twitter feeds and we can’t get enough. Educators are sharing their best throwback school photos (laser background, anyone?), paired with photos of themselves today as leaders of the classroom.
It’s a journey to which any teacher can relate—so many of us fell in love with school as kids and never looked back. Here are some of our favorite #onceastudentnowateacher photos blowing up the Internet.
From boarding the bus to bringing the bus decor
Fourth grade Halloween costume to fourth grade teacher
She’s still got the same sweet smile
Destined to be a teacher
Once she graduated from kindergarten, now she teaches it
12 versus 43
Total, complete 100% cuteness
Still rocking fun collared shirts after all these years
Has she aged a day?
Remember being the calendar helper?
Same pose, years apart
Still in love with reading after all these years
Now a teacher and a mom
Totally in love with this little bunny
Teacher twins! I can’t handle it!!
Turtleneck love!
More turtlenecks… 💗
You can feel this gal’s confidence from a mile away
He might be the class clown, still
What a sweet evolution
Middle school can be a rocky road but this teacher nailed it
Hard-core in love with both of her shirts
Paint splatters! Did anyone else’s mom make them take this picture?
“I never thought I would be a teacher…” 😭
There are those lasers we were talking about
“I am all I ever wanted to be.” May we all be so lucky!
Darling no matter the age
Yessss to these double portraits from the 80s and 90s
Still the same!
Now she’s got the keys to the school
More lasers and the best-ever haircut!
Is that the same shirt?!
Have you participated in the #onceastudentnowateacher trend?