Chain of Events from Video to Practice

A NESS Liaison shared with me a chain of events today that involved sharing and communication.. Follow this:

1) On the 6th day of school I videotaped a New Educator utilizing Response (Dry Erase) Boards during Writing instruction (to be used as a New Educator podcast).
2) A few days later I emailed the video clip to the NESS Liaison for feedback.
3) Through the NESS Liaison, the Principal heard of the podcast, and found additional Response Boards for the rest of the New Educators.
4) The NESS Liaison shared the clip and the new Boards with her New Educators.
5) A week later, I videotaped a different New Educator practicing a new skill: Utilizing Response Boards during Math Instruction.


The NESS Liaison was quite impressed on how fast her teachers are implementing new ideas.
It was a thrill to hear everyone tuned into the same frequency!

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

Your Gut Feeling

Just watched The Sentinel. Not the edge of your seat thriller that I was expecting, but then again what should I expect lately from Hollywood? One could even describe the current trend in Hollywood as “banal”.

However there is a shining moment, something that makes you go, “Hmmmmmmmm”. Early in the movie, when David Breckinridge (Kiefer Sutherland) and Jill Marin (Eva Longoria) arrive at the scene of an agent's murder, Breckinridge lectures a police detective: "The problem with a gut feeling is that the only evidence you see is the kind that supports your gut feeling."
Hmmmmmmmm.

Gators 1-0! Is this good data?

The final score had Florida Gator fans thrilled, the clock ended with a 34-7 victory, however the post game interview with head coach Urban Meyer told a different story. Said UF coach, "I was disappointed after that game because I felt like we could play so much better."

Disappointed?!?! Did we just watch the same game?

I realized that as we looked at the final score, we JUDGED the performance of the football team and we were pleased. However the score did not INFORM us on how well the football team performed. Granted the Gators performed better than Southern Mississippi, yet in the language of Assessment and Accountability Coach Meyer and his players believe that improvement comes from looking at individual performance and growth.

Offensive lineman Drew Miller expressed next actions perfectly, "We've got to get better. We've got to watch film, make adjustments, and be better."

Unlike Drew, what film do I have to gauge my growth as NESS Program Facilitator? When looking at the performance of our New Educators, Instructional Coaches, or the NESS Liaison - what film is available?

Pooh and NESS

My cousin sent me an email today with the following “Pooh” message. Her intentions were to prompt my thinking and not necessarily NESS related, yet the relation to our current New Educator Support connect…well, what do you see?

"...it's a very large Forest, and there's plenty of room to bounce in it. But I don't see why he should come into my little corner of it and bounce here." --AA Milne

Your future doesn't just "happen" to you.

You co-create your future with the other people who are in your life.

(One of many reasons that it's important to have good people in your life!)



The people around you are in your life precisely to help you create the life you came here to experience and precisely to have you help them create the life they came here to experience. They are here to help you, to challenge you, to test you and to inspire you.

And you are here to help them in the very same ways.

 No one in your life is in your life "by accident.”

If you want to change what your life looks like, you must change. It's
 really that simple...and that challenging.