{"id":29,"date":"2014-11-18T19:03:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T00:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/melissarathier\/?p=29"},"modified":"2014-11-18T19:03:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T00:03:51","slug":"breaking-through-the-glass-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/melissarathier\/2014\/11\/18\/breaking-through-the-glass-ceiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After the first Face-to-Face session, many people talked about feeling overwhelmed. We met \u00a0inspiring educators and were shown awesome tools. We were sent on our way to explore and connect. I think at the time I was a bit too stunned to feel anything. My mind felt flooded.\u00a0In a good way. Twitter? Diigo? Google +? WordPress? I needed to sift through all of the information that I had gathered, and I wasn’t quite sure where to begin.<\/p>\n

I felt a bit stuck. I found myself reflecting more intentionally, searching for a blogging topic. What is unique about the way I teach? What tools do I use that work? What are the struggles that I have in my classroom? What can I share? My ideas became partially developed titles saved in my phone:<\/p>\n

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  1. Renewing my faith in buzz words: growth mindset vs fixed mindset.<\/li>\n
  2. Flipping my classroom: when it works, it’s beautiful.<\/li>\n
  3. Jumping over hurdles and through hoops in an attempt to implement technology.<\/li>\n
  4. Goodbye Facebook, Hello Twitter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And that is as far as I got. “Cohort Blog” has been on my to-do list for a long time and has nagged at me, but I couldn’t bring myself to log in and start writing.<\/p>\n

    What was holding me back? I told myself that I needed a lot of time to process. I told myself that I wasn’t a strong writer and that it would be a tedious process to write it and perfect it before publishing. I worried about what picture I would include. I was concerned that I wouldn’t have enough to say or that my thoughts were not important.<\/p>\n

    Then it struck me! I had a fixed mindset<\/a> about blogging- gah!<\/p>\n

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    I was avoiding the challenge. I was intimidated by the success of others. I feared criticism.<\/p>\n

    What I needed to do was change my mindset. And that I did. So here I am, putting myself out there. I am embracing the challenge. I am going to find inspiration in the greatness of others. I am going to learn from the criticism and persist in the face of setbacks. I am going to have a growth mindset<\/a> about blogging.<\/p>\n

    I just needed to do it-to break the glass ceiling- to get the first one out there.<\/p>\n

    Glass ceiling broken. Whew! Here’s to letting my ideas flow “up” into the blogosphere.<\/p>\n

    Is a fixed mindset holding you back from accomplishing something on your to-do-list? How can you change your thinking to help you to break through the glass ceiling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    After the first Face-to-Face session, many people talked about feeling overwhelmed. We met \u00a0inspiring educators and were shown awesome tools. We were sent on our way to explore and connect. I think at the time I was a bit too stunned to feel anything. My mind felt flooded.\u00a0In a good way. Twitter? Diigo? Google +? … Continue reading “Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions","category-growth-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/melissarathier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/melissarathier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/melissarathier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/melissarathier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/melissarathier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/melissarathier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/melissarathier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/melissarathier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/melissarathier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}