Re-inventing myself, once again
In my district, teachers go back to work on July 27, with students starting a week later. I’ll be teaching something new, which gives me the opportunity to create, a prospect that is both invigorating and terrifying. Which one I’m feeling depends on the day. Last spring, I was completed panicked, my go-to response to change of any kind. The official name of the course is Study Skills, but I prefer to call it Enrichment because I want to move kids beyond where they are, and not have them assume that I have the answers as to how to study in the 21st century. In the past, teachers have taught this course as an add-on to their regular assignment, but it will be my full assignment, another push to design something fabulous. Last spring, the only things I was sure of were that I wanted to include a “genius hour” component and increase personalized learning the other days. I wasn't completely sure what either meant. I was part of an interdisciplinary inquiry and project-based team ab...