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Okay! I am going to try this finally tomorrow. Ben your posts on Facebook are finally cutting through my stubborness in avoiding figuring out what the heck you are talking about with all this invisible stuff. I finally sat down and went through the blog and I am kind of getting emotional just thinking about its potential for my kids. I have a lot of freedom to do whatever the hell I want so why not! I just want to thank you all for the work you´ve done on this! Wish me luck.
Brian thank Tina as well. If she had not immediately jumped in on this last year with no hesitation with her students, I would not have realized how ridiculously different and powerful the idea was. My sixth graders launched it over there in New Delhi, and then Tina’s middle school kids validated it. That was huge because I thought I was crazy to think that I didn’t have to do that same shitty nervous way of doing stories that I always had done up to that point last February there at the American Embassy School. I had done shitty/nervous stories for fifteen years up to that point! Learning about the Invisibles alone was worth the trip over there. (Of course, getting to teach across the hallway from Linda Li and Zach Al Moreno was also a big plus.)
Somebody on FB criticized the Invisibles. I had to respond that it is by far my best book. I have concluded that those criticizing the Invisibles haven’t really read the book, or, if they have, they only skimmed it and didn’t dive deep. Maybe it doesn’t resonate with some people. I get that. But Brian keep us informed. Tina and I would LOVE reports from the field from those doing it. We and some folks from the summer workshops are all over this stuff. It has freed us from shitty stories.
Did you see what Elena de Hoyos Turner wrote about the Invisibles on FB the other day? It made me almost cry because I have put more creative energy into this book than anything I have done in my life. In fact, this book signals the end of my contribution to the CI world. It’s the best I got. It signals me that my book writing days are over. All I have to do today is head out on a half century later today on this 78 degree day in the Colorado Mountains. I can’t believe I survived that shit, those 38 years in a classroom. That right there is ample proof that God and His angels exist:
Elena’s comment:
…I agree with everything said here. I enjoy stories so much more using the invisibles. At the end of the day I often catch myself thinking about the stories we made in the classroom and about how good they are. Today I told the students how sad the story we made was and a student (who did not buy into TPRS at the beginning of the year) said: it is sad but so amazingly good!…