This school year has seemed to be a series of events that have led to one word. I started the year in a portable since my building was under construction. I decided to move my classroom to a flexible seating room. I taught a staff professional development for the first time. The beginning of January our bi-monthly district Twitter chat (#svtchat) was on Risk Taking. At our staff meeting this month, Cori Orlando guest hosted and asked us to do a collaborative Google Slides activity where we all identified our ONEWORD for 2016. We then had to find an image that supported that as well. My One Word? Risk. Here is my slide. This new blog, this post, it seems like a culmination of this word. I am about to start Digital Portfolios with my students by way of student blogs and I realized I was going to ask them to do something, to be vulnerable, in a way that I myself did not practice. How would I be able to coach and guide them? So this is me, taking another risk by writing. I would not call myself a writer, but how do you learn to write? You write. Then you write some more. The posts that appear on this blog will be honest and heartfelt. They will be an extension of what I am doing in my classroom. They will reflect on ongoing learning and evolution as an educator. But, they will be messy. This will be a reflection of my growth in progress.
This is risk. Come join me.
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Jenny Goldman
1/25/2016 10:43:03 pm
I continue to be impressed and humbled by the work you are doing with your students, your colleagues and yourself. It's a very exciting year!
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Jennifer Goldman
2/2/2016 01:44:12 pm
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Barbara Reese
2/3/2016 05:53:40 pm
I am constantly impressed with the knowledge, compassion and commitment you show for teaching. Your students are very lucky.
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Curt Reese
2/3/2016 05:59:59 pm
Looks like such a positive environment for learning... great job!
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Ventura County Teacher of the Year 2016.
On a journey: Special Ed Teacher, Mentor, EdTech Advocate, Book Nerd, Knitter, Risk Taker, LA Kings Fan, #Whole30 lover, #SVTChat, GCE Level 1, Daring Greatly Categories
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