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Say ‘cheese’ to the 90s mems! 🧀🧀🧀
When I think about the companies responsible for capturing the essence of my fondest moments + mindsets as a 90s baby...brands like Polaroid, Kodak, and Blockbuster come to mind (film, duh).
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Aside from a pretty rad come-back at Target, what do these companies have in common?
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Well, a pretty wicked beef wit’ that thang called Modernity, for starters…
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Netflix 100, Blockbuster 0
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iPhone 100, Kodak 0
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Here’s the thing...companies like Kodak + Blockbuster lost the whole friggin’ war because their fearless leaders couldn’t let go of the old and step up to the new.
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Bitty-bits of casual proof?
👉🏻 My classroom closet used to be a darkroom, y’all
👉🏻 And my mobile phone has ‘3’ cameras
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📷 But Polaroid?! This is where it gets tricky
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This analog tradition of ‘in-real-time-moment-capturing’ may have went down for the 🥊 —the originators threw in the towel in 2008—but the innovators around them saw a different 💫
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A team of 🤓🤓 who believed relentlessly in the power of analog-slash-instance bought + rebranded the company...
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Tradition AND Modernity!
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Instead of disrupting the status quo (like Netflix, and Uber, and Amazon, and…), they found renewed purpose in what ‘once was’
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Teacher-Point?
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WE 👏🏼 CAN 👏🏼 HAVE 👏🏼 BOTH.
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Stop telling yourself you don’t have enough ⏰ or space or permission to try something new in your curriculum.
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Stop telling yourself you’re forced to choose...the way you’ve always taught VS a ‘think different’ way you potentially could.
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It doesn’t have to BE one or the other...
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😶 Our gender isn’t.
😶 Our sexual preferences aren’t.
😶 Our race isn’t.
🤭 So why does our curriculum have to be?
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Take a few responsible risks today. Plop a few disruptive moves right in the midst of your traditional teaching. They CAN exist at once.
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📩 Spread the word: ‘pivot *with* the times’
📸 You’ll be amazed at the learning moments you capture + the lasting memories you make with your students while mixing old-n-new.
Have you ever made that ‘whatever’s left before it spoils’ meal?
🧀🥝🥯🍇🥦🤷🏼♀️
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Or the one where you’ve got nothing left—and have positively nothing left in YOU to make the grocery dash—so you just *pray* for Food Baby magic?🙏🏼🤰🏼...🤦🏼♀️
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I can’t even believe I’m saying this, but for once, that’s actually NOT this ☝🏼meal...
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ME...
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...the girl who’s *never* eaten anything GREEN until she was 23 years old (ask my Dad...this is not fiction).
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Me, who only believed in turkey-tv-dinners and swore by Hamburger Helper?!
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But *THIS* dish?!
was actually one I willingly CHOSE! (Compliments, by the way, to the Head Chef @dipavich )
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Am I here to food shame you?
🙅🏼♀️NO!
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Am I a nutritionist?
🥗Freak-NO!
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Am I here to set off a lil’ thought-💣?
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💁🏼♀️ YES!
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As I (food-prep) step into this new decade, I’m making it my *obsession* to base my food choices on:
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what my (note: empathetic use of ‘my’) body needs to feel full + strong (what up, black beanzzz!)
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what it needs to make my brain work better (yo, yo, avocado!)
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and what fires up the Joy (+ my drool-effect) with each bite (b/c face it, corn has 🚫 nutritional value!)
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We all have different bodies, different taste buds, different nutritional needs.
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But as any new year starts, we all land on the same topic of how we hope to improve our lives, moving forward (be that via food, exercise, or otherwise).
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This is what I’m calling my ‘Food EVolution’ because it’s a new decade, and I’m a new girl (and then some, from that wee-23!)
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Annnd also because resolutions never-ever stick for me, so I’m gettin’ creative here!
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So I’m curious, teachers (my pals who eat as they plan, attend lunch at the permission of a dinging bell!)...
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What are your intentions, health-habit-wise, for kicking off the new year? How do you hope to keep up with your intentions amidst the busy-busy?
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Comment below and let’s talk EVOLUTION!
Don’t get me wrong. I ❤️ a good tradition. *Especially* around the holidays...
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Thanksgiving dinner, my family draws from a hat their ‘Secret Santa’.
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On Xmas Eve, we sing the 12 Days of Christmas, w/ each holiday bulb assigned to a different soloist.
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Digging back even further...
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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.
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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?!).
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Some traditions feel SO good 🥰. But here comes the bomb-bomb…💣💣
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Not all of them SERVE us 🤯
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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?):
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👉🏻single-row seats (admit it, you loved the front—or the back—row)
👉🏻 key concepts or skills in isolation
👉🏻 product > process
👉🏻 competition > collaboration
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I’m not posting to say ‘Damn the Man’ and all that garbage.
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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.
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But I’m ALL ABOUT the almighty power of the Audit 🧐
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SO...Honest-Talk: have you done a *genuine* audit of the lessons you’re so timelessly using?
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Some will stay, some will go...but the❓is:
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⁉️ are they still serving your students in ways that truly translate into TomorrowLand?
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⁉️...for the JOBS they’ll be doing that don’t 👏🏼 even 👏🏼 exist yet 👏🏼??
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I know it’s hard to let go of those activities that make our lives so easy.
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(But until you truly audit, DO NOT defer to the point that you ‘ain’t about to fix what ain’t broken’)
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Cuz tomorrow, there *ain’t* no more assembly line (we have Amazon 🤖 for that)
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Our ~students~ will be assembling (in their own, innovative minds) the next big thing since sliced br—, er...wireless AirPods 🧠
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So I leave you with this…
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Sticking to the status quo rarely gets us in trouble.
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But comfort never leads to innovation.
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Which road will you be walking down as we trapsy into 2020?
FACT: you can’t pour from an empty cup.
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This week’s blog post tackles a tender topic...mental health.
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More than ever, our students silently fight battles which are entirely unique to this era.
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From cyber-bullying, to the looming threat of campus shootings; the comparison effect inextricably tied to scroll-sessions on social media; and an inundation of data unlike any generation has ever witnessed before.
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As teachers and Leaders, we are 💯 here to protect their hearts and their minds...
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But if we’re going to do that, we’ve gotta put the proverbial oxygen mask on first, which is what today’s post is all about.
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In this season (be that holiday-mode or ‘season’ of life, in general), you’re on my mind, my fellow teacher peeps.
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Mental health is for us, too.
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🔗 in bio if you’re up for some real-talk. #iteachhighschool #iteachela #highschool #teachersofinsta #igteachers #teachersfollowteachers #teachersofig #teachertalk #mentalhealth #selfcare #madeformore
Right on 🎯 this weekend as we prep for the holidays…
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*giggles at silly, picture-related pun*
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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.
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Key word: kinda…
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‘Kids’ tree-decorating Op…
Great! Loved it! Mom-of-the-year patience!
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Letting go of the ‘main tree’ decorating?
Not so much…
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*Cue the Type A, control freak in me*
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Maybe it’s my Spirit Creative, my love for design, the Maker in my DNA mold....
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🤷🏼♀️ It’s freaking HARD to give up creative control, m’kay?!
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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.)
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Sometimes I think holiday memories are supposed to be ~just like~ they were when I was young.
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👁 (Admit: don’t we all?!) 👁
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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!)
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👩🏼🏫 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…
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👩👧👦 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.
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But, YO...here’s the connect:
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Letting the younger Gen take the lead is what *real* learning and *genuine* memories are made of…
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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)?
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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 👏🏼 ?!
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*kicks Self in gut where she deserves it*
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So ~today~, I CHOOSE to:
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a) own that mess as a Mom, but
b) inspire other teachers to embrace that mess in the classroom, too.
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Let the freakin’ Wildlings lead a lil’...
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We might have our own nostalgia (i.e. agenda!) for what’s worked in the past...
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...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.
Every day, as I rev up my work day, I write it down:
💫 ‘I’m changing the world for my children.’
👩🏼💻 The birth of my daughter inspired the birth of my first blog.
📕 The birth of my son inspired the birth of my first published book.
🤩 The support of my husband—my best friend in the 🌎 inspires me to dream as big as I want.
🎯 And Chewy...he’s my ride-or-die in the office, cheering me on to hit those daily, needle-moving goals or *I* won’t get any (world changin’) treats, either.
🙌🏼 So I could be more GRATEFUL for what I’ve got goin’ on right here.
Happy 🦃 from the Pavich fam!
#grateful #familyfirst #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #itsabeautifullife #bossbabe #bizmom #changeagent #edPioneer #blazingthetrail
