As the day begins, I’m looking forward to the chance to explain my thinking thus far and receive lots of new insights about other ways of seeing the same issues and topics. The theme of “you don’t know what you don’t know until you’re confronted with your unknown” will resonate I’m sure throughout the day. […]
After an amazingly energetic and inspirational Face-to-Face, I have hewed out the essential aspects of my action plan for this year. Building on my thinking in the post “Festina Lente,” I have refined my year into the form of a HMW (How Might We) statement: How might we determine how, when, and why thinking slowly […]
As professional educators, we all travel along the road of professional development and we all, regardless of pre-planning, training, and/or our best intentions, hit at some point or another a rut — a difficult class, a student with a unique learning need, a new prep, or, in my case, a beloved ‘dead’ language that does […]