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Laura's Model Writing

Page history last edited by Ms. Edwards 13 years, 2 months ago

 

 

Laura's Model

 

Laura's Celebration Poem

 

 

 

Sometimes people ask me,

Don't you feel disconnected

with so much distance between you

and the Project Real teachers?

 

I can't help laughing

when they ask me that.

 

I'm always surprised. And I say,

"How could I be?"

"I know who's in charge."

If they could meet these teachers, they'd know too.

 

Back in October, we had our first

all group meeting.

Friend, I wish you'd been here.

 

But since you weren't

I'll tell you how it got to be

one of the first celebrations for me.

 

You can simply call them, rural, K-12

teacher if you want to.

Me, I think "teacher-leaders,"

"teacher-collaborators,"

"risk-takers" and

"reflective practitioners" have a

better sound.

 

Well, anyway,

it was amazing to be a part of

their planning conversations.

 

I realized almost immediately

that these teams didn't need me to facilitate

their deliberations about what their collective

objectives were for the year ahead.

 

Anyone could see

they were already making connections

between the EALRs, best practices, and their

content areas.

 

Throughout the day

we all shared our stories

we all shared our visions

we all shared our concerns

Important questions were asked

Important decisions were made.

 

And then the whole way home,

I thought about how lucky I was to be there.

 

Some of my best celebrations of Project REAL

are inspirational gatherings like that.

 

And I though about the Seattlites who would say

"Isn't that too far to drive?"

"What's out there that we don't have here?"

And I have to laugh outloud.

 

 by Laura Jones

 


 

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