This type of exercise is interesting for me. I spend a great deal of time in the reflecitve process personally, so the exercise is not different but my approach to change is. Very rarely do I make changes without at least one to two months of evaluating. I have found that snap decisions to change rarely stick and rarely turn out well for most involved. I like to "sleep" on it for longer. When I do make the changes they usually are more meaningful and last. I can tell you in looking back that I have learned a ton of new programs that will be going back with me to my district for the other teachers to use. The one program that I will introduce them to is Jing. You cannot push too much at them at one time, but this one is easy and I believe they will want to make use of it. I plan to use my Snapshots for Learning website, grow it and maintain it. I would also like to do a PD that introduces them to new programs. I think this would be best done through a description-shared doc. You can look back...you can look forward...but you are still just here.
