{"id":1695,"date":"2012-07-09T14:52:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T21:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2012-07-09T14:54:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T21:54:30","slug":"in-a-networked-community-of-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/in-a-networked-community-of-learners\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Networked Community of Learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"color: #df0000; line-height: 23px;\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/files\/2012\/07\/beach_summer.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1699\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial;\" title=\"beach_summer\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/files\/2012\/07\/beach_summer-300x189.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s summer and the warm weather has certainly given us more chances to sit back and ponder over the year. \u00a0And what I&#8217;m reminded over and over is that\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">WE<\/span> have great people in each of our school sites doing great things to support our students. \u00a0Funny how sitting on a log, listening to the waves crash over rocks and seaweed allow a certain perspective to emerge. So here&#8217;s a list of things that I learned from my \u00a0Fast ForWord &#8220;community of learners&#8221; \u00a0(*Yes that&#8217;s you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one smile can light up and change a day for someone<\/li>\n<li>even though we endured a year of districtwide reimaging which took down whole schools, we managed to increase the number of students we supported (*meaning our teachers are incredibly hardworking)<\/li>\n<li>great questions take time to percolate when we expect deep connections<\/li>\n<li>prevention trumps intervention (*it&#8217;s an art to deconstruct the reports)<\/li>\n<li>communication is a multi-way street and allows everyone to gather wisdom<\/li>\n<li>learning (including professional learning) is a matter of connectedness, of energy, of heart\/soul and risk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As we move towards an online integrated process in the Fall, I look forward to learning and connecting with you all. \u00a0Have a wonderful summer of rejuvenation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s summer and the warm weather has certainly given us more chances to sit back and ponder over the year. \u00a0And what I&#8217;m reminded over and over is that\u00a0WE have great people in each of our school sites doing great things to support our students. \u00a0Funny how sitting on a log, listening to the waves&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[23,32,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}