Is it natural?

Okay...here goes....it was brought to my attention that I REALLY need to be updating my blog...I say to myself..."who wants to read anything I have to say...?" However, that is not necessarily true......I always have something to say...I just like the interaction of people...when I want to put my thoughts down on paper, I get out my journal.....and if I want to share something that I feel is worth sharing...I just find a gorup of people [or one person] and talk away.......so here is my question...how do I make this "blog thing" natural for me.....is it like wearing your seat belt? When I first started driving, I refused to put that thing on....two very expensive tickets later, my father informed me that the choice was no longer mine....the point being, once I started wearing it, then it was comfortable....is it that whole do something for 21 days....then it becomes natural????.......perhaps....thank God I have someone who works very closely to me who continues to remind me..."Denise....get on the blog!"

An Inspiring Young Lady

Many of you know about Adora.....I only discovered who Adora was when I began this job....how unfortunate for me....Adora Svitak is one of the most amazing kids you will ever come across. She is a "self-proclaimed" amateur historian. I recently read that she teaches everyday...she teaches children and adults via web conferencing. Adora is truly gifted.....often times when we show teachers the brief clip about Adora, they question her lifestyle....is she balanced? Does she play with other kids...etc. When you go through the site that I have linked here, you will clearly see that Adora is truly a confident, well rounded child. From the outside looking in...Adora seems balanced......within her teaching, you never feel that she is superior to anyone.....yes, it is sort of funny to watch a child teaching teachers.....but why not? Are we not lifelong learners?

http://www.adorasvitak.com/Main.html

This site is super fabulous!!! It links you to all sorts of wonderful stuff about Adora and other gifted kids!

From the book....Building Teachers' Capacity for Success by Pete Hall and Alisa Simeral

While society has evolved (read: wireless phone technology, wider Internet access, intensive brain research, and so on), school responses have lagged, sometimes with heels dug deep in the trenches of tradition and comfortable experience. Yet everything about education screams, "Change now!" Students enter our schools with the primary purpose of getting in, getting smart, and getting out. Class rosters change, sometimes daily. Curricula change, federal mandates change, laws change, textbooks change, instructional styles change. Our understanding of learning changes as we take in research-based findings on how the brain develops and processes information. The world has become both broader and more accessible, and the global market demands new and different skills from both workers and consumers. In short, everything changes. So why aren't we, in education, changing?

Why does it seem that everything we read about asks the same question?!?! This same book speaks of individuals dating back to the 1730s who recognized the importance of having great schools. From Mann to Coleman.....the same topic dates back from the 1830s to the 1960s...and here we are...still talking about the same topic...while everyone is sitting around talking about the need for change....why isn't anybody doing anything about it? Data does'nt lie....we are not improving....what are we going to do!?!?!?

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Welcome to Seeds of Wisdom!! This is a place where I will post thoughts, ideas, and reflections about all of my professional learning experiences. I will also share great links that I come across, as well as articles.

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