 Today I read this blogpost from Chad Lehrmann. Chad is an educator in College Station ISD and he has a passion for student voice in his classroom. The following thought stood out to me from his blogpost: You have to have experiences to reflect on them. At first, I thought of course, you need experiences to be able to reflect upon them. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought about this question: How often do we make sure that people (children and adults) have actually had the experiences that we need them to reflect upon in order to grow?
My experience as a school leader tells me that we operate under a lot of assumptions when it comes to the experiences of our students and fellow teachers. This is why it is important to create learning experiences for our learners. If we do not make sure they happen, then who will? Think. Achieve. Succeed. Jeff
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 As a leader, people that follow you and work with you want to know your vision. They want to know what you have planned for today, tomorrow and way down the road. Sharing your vision with them is important because it allows them to help actualize the vision. They want to help and support you in your work, but they cannot if you do not share or are not sharing it completely. Be transparent, be open, be purposeful. If you do not know the full vision, tell them and finalize the vision with them. When you involve others in the vision, you create shared ownership which leads to better outcomes.
Think. Achieve. Succeed. Jeff  Here we are at the start of a new year. We all know the things that come with the start of a new year: resolutions, new beginnings, words and phrases of the year, mantras, themes… you get the point. All of those are fine and quite frankly, necessary because with the start of a new year we should want to push ourselves to greatness. Starting with the new year makes sense due to the newness and excitement of starting over. I purposefully waited until January 2 to post this because we all have the energy and excitement on January 1. Here we are, on day #2 and some of us has slipped already. That’s okay, it happens. Breaking old habits takes time and is very challenging. When you find yourself struggling with the change that you have decided to undertake, I need you to ask yourself this question: Are you going to run the year or is the year going to run you? You made that resolution, new beginning, word and/or phrase of the year, mantra, or theme for a reason. Don’t give up on it. More importantly, don’t give up on yourself. It’s your choice. What will you do? Think. Achieve. Succeed. Jeff **Image from @GoneforaRUNcom Daily Motivation Calendar. Get Yours By Clicking Here.
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