{"id":135,"date":"2017-10-02T16:56:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/nicholabendle\/?p=135"},"modified":"2017-10-02T18:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T18:56:04","slug":"row-row-row-your-cohort-21-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/nicholabendle\/2017\/10\/02\/row-row-row-your-cohort-21-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Hope for Miracles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe don\u2019t hope for miracles. We make miracles a reality by doing more than we ever thought possible\u201d. \u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This sentiment was instilled in me by my rowing coaches in the summer of 2012. I had set a goal to win the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta and, with the help of my coaches and teammates, my goal was turned into a reality. The phrase above was the best way my team could express how we felt about our achievement.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Crews racing at the 2017 Head of the Trent Regatta. Watching crews I was reminded of the motto I love so much.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Being a member of Cohort 21 gives me a similar feeling.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am presented with new opportunity to tackle big goals. Challenges, even those that seem insurmountable, quickly become opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like in rowing, what we\u2019ll achieve through Cohort 21 will not happen overnight and it will not happen in isolation. It will take a team of passionate, thoughtful, and energetic people all working towards their own goals. It will also take the individual to show up, be willing to take risks, and to push outside of what is comfortable. Added to all this is an undeniable persistence to do and be better, which usually happens around 5:00 am.\u00a0Reaching our goals, through Cohort 21, requires the same persistence, give or take an hour, and maybe after a coffee.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m starting this year of Cohort with my mind on a couple challenges. I may explore students’ relationship with reading and expand the culture of reading at TCS. It may be the time to push myself from being a passive observer of the \u201cTeachers Throwing Out Grades\u201d<\/a> facebook group and begin to engage in the idea of going gradeless, which I have been intrigued by since my Bachelor of Education. Both have, \u201cOh man! If you could do that it\u2019d be a miracle,\u201d qualities to them — so they are most definitely worthy of further consideration. I look forward to seeing where they take me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As we move quickly towards our first F2F, I wonder, what is the challenge in your practice that, if solved, would be a miracle?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe don\u2019t hope for miracles. We make miracles a reality by doing more than we ever thought possible\u201d. \u00a0 This sentiment was instilled in me by my rowing coaches in the summer of 2012. I had set a goal to win the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta and, with the help of my coaches and teammates, … Continue reading “Don\u2019t Hope for Miracles”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/nicholabendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/nicholabendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/nicholabendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/nicholabendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/nicholabendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/nicholabendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/nicholabendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/nicholabendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/nicholabendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}