A colleague wrote to me and said this:
…I am no longer so intimidated at the thought of sending in videos. I am starting to see them as virtual observations, like if we all taught in some big happy school in the sky where we could just pop into each others’ rooms….
This is powerful. There really are no experts. The so called experts are just regular people don’t the hard work that we do but we mistakenly put them up as some kind of expert. Why do we do that? It is because the approach of CI protects and defends and even illustrates the individual personality of the teacher. So how could there be any model teachers?
Those who buy into that kind of reasoning really have no excuse to just send some video in and get over it. You have a lot of friendly hearts waiting to see your work and share their ideas with you in a loving way.
Then we have a year round conference, which was my original dream for this website.
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