I just realized that a post I wrote over a week ago never actually posted to my blog. I swear it was here before. It came through on my google reader (because, yes, I’m a dork who subscribes to my own blog) but I just found it in my draft folder and nowhere to speak of on the web.
It’s been that kind of day.
I had every intention of pulling together a really good post today, because it’s been the kind of weekend where I’ve been getting things done (unfortunately not school related, but my fiance and I spring-cleaned the heck out of our apartment, and it’s never looked better).
The real post will have to come another time, and I’m at work on a reflection on my successes and failures in blogging that is also coming soon.
But for now, I will leave you with this post from Scott McLeod on Dangerously Irrelevant that makes my heart happy even on a day when so much has not gone well:
Thank you to Scott for putting this out there. I’ll add teachers to Scott’s list of education professionals that includes “principals, superintendents, curriculum directors, technology coordinators, and educational leadership professors.” Sure, these folks are the leaders, the decision makers, and perhaps the people with the power in our schools. But complaining about the system will not get anyone anywhere.
As a future English teacher and a citizen of the world, I am left with this thought: I can only control what I do in my own classroom and my own life. I cannot control what other people do. I cannot make all of the decisions. If I hate what standardized testing has done to school curicculum, I will solve nothing by simply complaining.
“We must point those fingers inward. We must blame ourselves before we blame others. We must recognize the impacts of our own actions rather than always blaming external factors. Only then does real progress occur.”
