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Cambridge “Best Practices”: June 2014

By Jill Pavich on April 21, 2014 | Leave a comment

Breaking news…I’m facilitating this summer’s GP Best Practices!

Interested in attending Cambridge’s “Best Practices” workshop this summer? Great news…I’m facilitating a two-day workshop for AICE: General Paper 8004!

If you are interested in learning more about this awesome opportunity in June 2014, CLICK HERE!!!!!!

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Don’t get me wrong. I ❤️ a good tradition. *Especially* around the holidays... 👇🏻 Thanksgiving dinner, my family draws from a hat their ‘Secret Santa’. 👇🏻 On Xmas Eve, we sing the 12 Days of Christmas, w/ each holiday bulb assigned to a different soloist. ⛏ Digging back even further... 👇🏻 My Dad + I used to do this thing where we’d lay under the 🌲 tree after decorating it, just to watch the twinkling lights + bask in our delicate work. 👇🏻 On the day after Christmas, *every year* *without fail* my Bro + I would head to the mall to buy a new pair of kicks and a new 📞 phone (remember the Razor?!). . Some traditions feel SO good 🥰. But here comes the bomb-bomb…💣💣 . Not all of them SERVE us 🤯 . Consider the traditions of a 100+ year-old education system (ya know, the one made for Industrial Era compliance, yet hasn’t changed much since?): . 👉🏻single-row seats (admit it, you loved the front—or the back—row) 👉🏻 key concepts or skills in isolation 👉🏻 product > process 👉🏻 competition > collaboration . I’m not posting to say ‘Damn the Man’ and all that garbage. . I know well, that like the personal pieces that fill our ❤️s, there are plenty of timeless teaching traditions that’ll always hold space in our classrooms. . But I’m ALL ABOUT the almighty power of the Audit 🧐 . SO...Honest-Talk: have you done a *genuine* audit of the lessons you’re so timelessly using? . Some will stay, some will go...but the❓is: . ⁉️ are they still serving your students in ways that truly translate into TomorrowLand? — ⁉️...for the JOBS they’ll be doing that don’t 👏🏼 even 👏🏼 exist yet 👏🏼?? . I know it’s hard to let go of those activities that make our lives so easy. . (But until you truly audit, DO NOT defer to the point that you ‘ain’t about to fix what ain’t broken’) . Cuz tomorrow, there *ain’t* no more assembly line (we have Amazon 🤖 for that) ... Our ~students~ will be assembling (in their own, innovative minds) the next big thing since sliced br—, er...wireless AirPods 🧠 . So I leave you with this… 😑 Sticking to the status quo rarely gets us in trouble. 🤭 But comfort never leads to innovation. 🛤 Which road will you be walking down as we trapsy into 2020?

Right on 🎯 this weekend as we prep for the holidays… . *giggles at silly, picture-related pun* . 🌲🌲 Two Christmas tree-decorating operations later (one for the kids, one for the ‘rents), and we’re kinda-sorta ready to get the Christmas vibes on. . Key word: kinda… . 😏 ‘Kids’ tree-decorating Op… Great! Loved it! Mom-of-the-year patience! . 🤔 Letting go of the ‘main tree’ decorating? Not so much… . *Cue the Type A, control freak in me* . Maybe it’s my Spirit Creative, my love for design, the Maker in my DNA mold.... . 🤷🏼‍♀️ It’s freaking HARD to give up creative control, m’kay?! . 😳 Even when I’m handing it over to my own kids. . (And I’ll tell you straight...I got a D+ on that -ish tonight...at least I’m real about it.) . Sometimes I think holiday memories are supposed to be ~just like~ they were when I was young. . 👁 (Admit: don’t we all?!) 👁 . Then it hits me: this is legit *no different* than the way we—teachers—get down in our own classrooms...(guilty as charged + right here with you, friends!) . 👩🏼‍🏫 From a TEACHER’s perspective: Yeah, I want to detail the ~shit~ out of that rubric so my students can’t possibly eff it up… . 👩‍👧‍👦 From a MOM’s perspective: I want to tell my babes ~exactly~ where to put those ornaments so as to meld the perfect holiday memory in their minds. . But, YO...here’s the connect: . 💡 Letting the younger Gen take the lead is what *real* learning and *genuine* memories are made of… 💡 . 💣 So what IF we gave them license to design? What if they DID make a big fat mess (my lil monsters, my learners, or *your* students)? . 👎🏼 Failing—actual experience—leads to learning, doesn’t it? Yet here I am, in all my decoratin’ glory, not applying this strategy to my OWN 👏🏼KiDS 👏🏼 ?! . *kicks Self in gut where she deserves it* . So ~today~, I CHOOSE to: . a) own that mess as a Mom, but b) inspire other teachers to embrace that mess in the classroom, too. . 👹 Let the freakin’ Wildlings lead a lil’... 👹 . We might have our own nostalgia (i.e. agenda!) for what’s worked in the past... . ...but I guarantee that *letting go* of some of that control just 👏🏼 might 👏🏼 turn out even better than we EVER could remember, imagine, or divine ourselves.

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