Lori has captured my sentiments perfectly. I wish we worked in the same building! MJ
"Special Chat List for \"To Understand: New Horizons in Reading Comprehension\"" <understand@literacyworkshop.org> writes: >HI all! > >I am intrigued by the final question for our first reading. > >....In what ways can we live our adult lives as intellectually curious leaders > >for our students and for our colleagues? > >I can't tell you how many nights I stayed up thinking - why didn't my teachers >get it? Why don't they want to help their students - to move them beyond the >expected curriculum and into differentiation and individualization and >understanding? Why they >d idn't have an internal drive and motivation to replicate what Ellin and >Debbie and everyone was writing about and modeling in their books? I modeled >the ideas and goals at faculty meetings and in our weekly newsletters by both >taking pictures of the >a ctivities and usage of the strategies in classes and including snapshots and >ideas from the books themselves. > >But I could not motivate the teachers who were in the "been there done that" >mode. They made fun of the teachers who were taking leaps. They got >extremely cliquey. It was just so depressing! What kept me going was the >fact that I knew what I was >writIing/talking/modeling was right for both the teacher and the students. > >So....to answer the question - by modeling, blogging, dicsussing, showing how >to never stop learning...our actions speak louder than words. The sad thing >is that there are so many of us who are isolated islands of application. The >good thing is that >th.ere are places like this where the isolated islands can find refuge, >mentorship, and relief. > >But how to be there for our colleagues? I think they have to be ready first. > >I obviously never figured out the answer to that one! >Lori _______________________________________________ Understand mailing list Understand@literacyworkshop.org http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org
