As we come to the end of the year - and especially this year, when you may feel like there’s so many doors you JUST WANT TO CLOSE and move on from - but really often any year, I think we tend to get excited about moving forward, focus all our energy on our new start, and we forget to look back on what came before.
And while it’s certainly not great to dwell on the past or live in it or anything like that >> there’s certainly value in giving ourselves a little space for reflection.
So I decided before I took time to look ahead, I was going to sit and reflect on where I’d been, where I was coming from, and then (here’s the important part) USE that information to help me look ahead — more mindfully, more realistically, really more usefully.
So with that in mind, I wanted to challenge you this week — before you get caught up in New Years resolutions and all of that — to take a few minutes to sit, reflect, and process.
Then you can *use* that information to guide you forward:
>> to help you identify the changes you may want to make (and what you want to keep the same!),
>> and to help you implement those changes in ways that will last.
So some questions or prompts you may want to consider:
- What were my favorite memories?
- What advice would I give myself if I traveled back to the beginning of 2020?
- How do I truly feel about the past year?
- What is my year in ONE sentence or ONE word?
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- why your students aren’t curious and what you can do,
- redefining what it means to be an educator so that it really translates to less work for you and more ownership from students,
- and how we can transform “students” into SCIENTISTS so that they really take on these critical thinking, creative skills and qualities that they are going to need beyond the classroom
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