#DigiLitSunday: #WhyIWrite
Why do I write?
I started a list
The verbs wrote themselves . . .
To define
To think
To create
To share
To craft
To dream
To plan a course of action
To question
To examine
To reflect
Current reality . . .
I am writing now
Because my fingers are tethered to my keyboard
And I can’t leave this post until I’ve recorded something
Worthy of pushing that “publish” button.
What do I write?
Serious or trivial?
Rich in details?
Or written totally between the lines?
Do the words tumble end over end
in their urgency to be revealed?
Or do they have to be coaxed out of hiding
while I patiently sip coffee as they emerge word by word on the scrren?
The pacing corresponds to the ideas,
some race across the blank screen begging for release,
some yet to simmer,
some seem half-baked,
some to be totally erased TODAY,
perhaps to emerge in a different format on another day.
YET
Today
The words are in gratitude for time with family
This weekend it was being entertained by the 17 month old grandson,
A charming, sweet boy
Attending his first collegiate football game
Complete with high fives, fist bumps, applause, and signaling touchdowns
And yet I wonder what he is thinking . . .
Today I write to share my thanks for the precious gift of time with family!
Why do you write?
What do you write?
Additional Reading
Other thoughts on #WhyIWrite here in a previous post complete with responses from MANY slicers!
Shaelynn Farnsworth’s post “Educators Sharing #WhyIWrite to Celebrate National Writing Day”
Kathleen Sokolowski’s post “Are You Ready for the National Day of Writing 2016?”
#SOL14: Pushing Ourselves
Tuesday is the day to share a “Slice of Life” with Two Writing Teachers. Check out the writers, readers and teachers here. Thanks to Stacey, Anna, Beth, Tara, Dana and Betsy for creating a place for us to work collaboratively.
As professionals, how do we show that we are learning and growing?
Is it in our annual professional growth plan?
Is it a part of our daily work?
For those of us who are PD providers, how do we maintain that trust with teachers that is evidence that we are continually learning and growing?
How do I continually push myself?
My evidence would include:
- over two years of blogging here at Resource-Full
- daily participation in the March 2014 Slice of Life Story Challenge (My goals and my writing)
- weekly participation in Slice of Life 14
- regular participation in weekly #TCRWP chats
- regular participation in the #Fallinginlovewithclosereading chats and blogs
- infrequent participation in #ira, #noticeandnote, #ncte, and #educoach chats
- daily responses to questions and concerns that arise from teaching situations
After a two day UbD training opportunity, my partner and I received the following comment from a teacher: ““This was very beneficial. It was one of the best PD experiences that I have participated in. I can walk away saying that I learned a lot. This is the first time that I have actually been able to put the Iowa Core Standards into action!” What a compliment for both of us! One reason that we both “pushed” for the UbD work was to literally help our teachers gain a deeper understanding of the Iowa Core as they aligned the desired results with the assessments and the learning plan!
Where did the question about learning, growing, and pushing ourselves come from?
A tweet last week . . .
“If we aren’t pushing ourselves everyday to be a better version of ourselves, how can we ask kids to do that for us?”
The author of that tweet was @venspired shown below!
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