The school year is starting to creep up on us. Well, at least those of us that start in August. With a lot of thinking this summer about my new role as Middle School Curriculum Coordinator and some inspiration from my amazing PLN, I have been setting my goals for the upcoming school year.
I have the privilege of taking on more responsibility as an Instructional Coach this year, and I am really looking forward to it. But I felt like I needed to help define this role for myself. So I began researching and compiling an Instructional Coaching Storify with resources. This ASCD article, Ten Roles for Teacher Leaders was incredibly helpful in crafting my thinking. By taking the time to state my new role clearly, I feel prepared to also set specific goals to guide me throughout the year and provide a focus for tasks. I narrowed it down to one sentence, inspired by recent ideas from my PLN: Daniel Pink's book Drive and video What is my sentence? Jaime Vandergrift's (@jaimevanderg) recent blog post: What Defines You Matters. Jaime also recently joined Will Deyamport (@peoplegogy) and Jerry Blumengarten (@cybraryman1) for a video on the topic: Peoplegogy TV: Your One Sentence. My one sentence: My goal is to energize teaching and learning by fostering a learning mindset in teachers and students. The idea of a "learning mindset" came from several places. One is in recent discussions with Kevin Washburn (@kdwashburn) and his wife Julia, of Clerestory Learning. We discussed the importance of creating a culture among teachers that is one of growth and improvement with an open mind toward change. Also from reading books like Mindset by Carol S. Dweck, Quiet Leadership by David Rock, and Choice Words by Peter H. Johnson. All highly recommended, by the way! So, the question is... How will I "energize teaching and learning and fostering a learning mindset among teachers and students?" These specific goals are helping me answer that question.
Formulating these goals has been an incredibly enlightening and rewarding experience for me as I see my role at school transforming. Putting in the thinking and research that is required to create these goals has been professional development in itself. Please Try This Tomorrow! Craft your "one sentence" and set your goals for the school year. Give yourself focus moving forward. Energize and prepare yourself now for the onslaught of busyness and craziness that is about to come. Please share your goals with me if you blog them! Can't wait to learn from you! Maureen Devlin (@lookforsun), who has a powerful blog Teach Children Well, recently posted her goals for the rest of the summer: Focus, Focus, Focus. Great read! __ Allison Petersen @alcp
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7/14/2013 12:15:07 am
Wonderful post. Your work is inspirational and really poignant to prepping for another school. Thanks for your work and effort.
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7/14/2013 05:33:53 am
Thank you for the mention, and thank you for sharing your goals, Allison. I look forward to continued share.
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7/17/2013 12:51:10 pm
You might also like the book Start with Why by Simon Sinek. I read it last year and it helped me define why I do what I do. That leads to my sentence. I'm going to work on that tomorrow.
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