Posts Tagged "influence"
#edcamp is turning 3: a shared responsibility
We’re in the thick of the spring Edcamp season right now, and just weeks away from Edcamp’s big third birthday. Next weekend I’m thrilled to be a part of the organizing committee yet again for Edcamp Boston. But something’s been brewing in my mind for some time, and this post here definitely helped crystallize my thoughts and spurred me to writing. Here’s the deal: people all over the place have been saying they love Edcamp. Lots of people are looking for support in rolling their own in their neck of the woods. Which is awesome, and why we created the Edcamp Foundation. But Edcamp itself is bigger than the Foundation. It’s all of us,...
Read MoreJust how big is the educator community on Twitter?
Pretty small on the scale of things, but big enough to actually register as a community! I don’t know about you, but I think I’d feel better if the words that signified our community were more along the lines of “learning,” “teaching,” and “students.” What do our word choices as a community say about our values? via LaughingSquid. Also, just eyeballing it, we’re a similar size to the animal lovers community, but smaller than the porn community. I’m most fascinated by the country-specific ones, though, with a personal favorite being “rubbish, reckon,...
Read MoreEducation needs more consultants
I spend a lot of time thinking about my job and how I could do it better. Two quick stories about how that’s been working for me this week: I met with my district science specialist, Sean Musselman, yesterday to talk about an upcoming fourth grade unit. We’ve actually not really had the chance to plan much of anything together since he started working here last year. All I really knew going into this meeting was that we needed to change some things up from the way we’ve traditionally handled it in the past from both a science and technology angle. He asked some great questions to get us thinking, shared more of what the actual science was behind the...
Read MoreMaking a habit of audacity
And if you’re paralyzed by a voice in your head/It’s the standing still that should be scaring you instead/Go on and/Do it anyway I got a little (just a little) pushback from a coworker yesterday for my recent blogpost in which I had stated that I had lied to my prospective, and now current, administrators. To refresh, when asked what job I was looking for, I described my ideal job, not the minimum one I would be willing to take. It’s a matter of interpretation of the question, I suppose. Also a matter of hyperbole. I use hyperbole more than anybody else in the universe as people who follow me on Twitter are already most likely aware. Here’s the...
Read MoreTrust #leadershipday12
We’d like to thank all those/all those that helped us out/all your invaluable assistance make this dream come true A little over two years ago, in what seems like another life entirely, I was in an interview with a superintendent for a job that I was most eminently not qualified for in any way, shape, or form. I was amazingly brash. I was most certainly doing my best to come across as more confident in myself than I actually was. How do I know that I was brash? I had exactly one job prospect at that time, the one I was interviewing for, and yet I still talked as if I so clearly deserved to be hired for this job which I demonstrated no real qualifications other than...
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