A primary school teacher in New Jersey wrote inspirational messages directly on her students' desks before they started days of high-pressure tests.
Chandni Langford's pupils, aged 10 and 11, walked into class at Evergreen Avenue Elementary School in Woodbury to find messages from her, including: "Learning is your superpower!" and "There is no elevator to success, you must take the stairs!"
Photos of the desks on the district's Facebook page have been shared more than 10,000 times. Ms Langford said she got the idea on Pinterest from another teacher.
The messages were written using dry erase markers and removed before the students began the first of seven days of testing.