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During one of our fist staff PD sessions this year, our Director of Teaching and Learning at Trinity College School, Myke Healy, shared a TED Talk by Brene Brown. [youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o&ab_channel=TED[\/youtube] In her talk, Brown\u00a0describes how vulnerability is a zone of utter discomfort out of which all growth, all learning, all progress is made. I am reminded of this talk during our first Cohort21 session\u00a0because innovating in our classrooms makes us so completely\u00a0vulnerable. As a technology integrator I hear teachers describe themselves as insecure technology users. They apologize before asking questions, and preface our conversations with, “I’m really ba\"vulnerability\"d at this but…”. People rarely see how incredible it is that they are asking for help in the first place. They don’t tend to acknowledge the value of their vulnerability. During our first Cohort21 session, teachers\u00a0were all kinds of vulnerable, including the Cohort21\u00a0leaders. I found it especially valuable to see how coaches and organizers\u00a0handled discomfort. Our first Cohort21 Face2Face felt like a well-oiled machine, with coaches at hand to answer questions and clarify directions. Of course this was totally\u00a0great, but what I enjoyed almost as much\u00a0was technology\u00a0not working as planned.\u00a0Firewalls that thought we were all hackers and shut down our sites. WordPress refusing to publish blog posts. When sessions were delayed, Garth led us on a fantastic tour of Bayview Glen, which got me thinking about how my own classroom and space is designed. It was a whole new kind of learning that stemmed from technology not running perfectly as planned. When we innovate in our classrooms, there is always imperfection. Sometimes it’s an outright disaster. But\u00a0we push forward knowing that we will be vulnerable, and that growth and learning takes hold in the cracks and crevices of vulnerability. Blogging is vulnerable for me, but I look forward to clearing space for\u00a0that discomfort and seeing what grows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    During one of our fist staff PD sessions this year, our Director of Teaching and Learning at Trinity College School, Myke Healy, shared a TED Talk by Brene Brown. [youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o&ab_channel=TED[\/youtube] In her talk, Brown\u00a0describes how vulnerability is a zone of utter discomfort out of which all growth, all learning, all progress is made. … Continue reading “Starting Small”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,7],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions","tag-growthmindset","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatheradams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatheradams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatheradams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatheradams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatheradams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatheradams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatheradams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatheradams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatheradams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatheradams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}