Hello to all my followers! You couldn't ask for a better summer morning than what we are having today. The sun is shining, the temperature is just perfect and the birds are singing. This must be a sign of good things to come for today. It seems that it has taken until today for me to wrap up the loose ends of the school year and complete any professional commitments I have made so far. Last week I taught a geocaching class through the ZED Summer Academy. The kids had a great time looking for (and hiding) "treasure". The first full week of the summer vacation is when we started our week long road trip down south. My husband and I celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary on June 8th. On that day we left for North Carolina. But that trip was not without a stop in Tennessee to enjoy the Grand Ole Opry. The entire trip was wonderful and we can now add 4 more states to our list of "been to's" and another set of mountains.
The week of June 13th I began another class in my journey towards a certificate in Innovative Leadership. This class is titled" Mindset, Motivation and Self Directed Learning. " This course requires a Genius Hour project. Although my summer has been filled with professional commitments that would meet this requirement, meeting the course deadline has proven to be problematic. The project I have chosen is my presentation at Hamline's Summer Literacy Institute with the topic being "Blended Learning". I did not "settle" on this project, but this is a project that I feel the most excitement. One thing to note, the thought of public speaking stirs up the "butterflies in my stomach." This is something that I dread but it is something that I committed to because I needed to change my mindset from a "I can't do this" attitude to an "I got this!" attitude. There have been a hundred times I have thought about calling the organizers to tell them I can't do this. But I have resisted this temptation and will see this through, because I CAN DO THIS!
My presentation is scheduled for July 14th. Watch for an upcoming post updating all of you on my experience. At this point my thoughts are that this is the worst part of it, the thought of it. Stay tuned!
