After quarantining at home last spring, Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell had the chance to see a teacher work through the challenges of educating children during the pandemic. Mitchell’s mother, Nicole, spent three months navigating that new normal for our country’s schools.
So on World Teachers Day, Donovan and Nicole Mitchell surprised two preschools — one in Connecticut and one in the Bronx — with a gift.
The schools will receive the All-Star guard’s new Crayola-inspired DON Issue #2 sneakers as well as a gift pack from Crayola.
“Teachers, as we all know, are so underrated, underpaid,” Nicole Mitchell said during an interview Monday morning on the Today Show.