This spoke to me from my Twitter feed today:
As educators standing in this place in our field, we have a choice. We can look out and see problems and despair or possibility and promise.
— Lucy Calkins, quoted in Tweet by Katie Keier
Katie wrote Catching Readers Before They Fall (Stenhouse, 2010) with Pat Johnson. You can check out their blog here.
By the way, this tweet is just one more example of the way Twitter serves as my PLN. I needed to hear this today. It spun me around and put my feet back on the path I want to travel. If you don’t tweet, I encourage you to take the plunge. Especially if you have a #fancyphone and can tweet from your palm.
(Six months ago I had no idea what a hash tag was or meant. A hash tag, #, is a way to tag posts on Twitter. #fancyphone is a tag used to mean a smart phone. Start tweeting and you too will know all kinds of new cool stuff.)
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I,too, LOVE this quote (snippet) from Lucy. I am already a
huge fan of hers. This quote is especially timely since I’ve been
contemplating the following quote “If you change the way you look
at things, the things you look at change.” I found this gem while
reading “From Disability to Possibility” by Patrick
Schwarz.
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Loved that snippet from Lucy’s speech–was at the same conference at Katie (heard her and Pat Johnson speak too). Am so glad this went out via Twitter!
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Here’s to our favorite Tweeps! I, too, find it to be a great way to connect with friends, old and new! Simple 140 character PD!
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Oops! I meant to say hash tag! That’s just proof that I am not joking about being pretty clueless when it comes to Twitter!
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I still haven’t taken the plunge and don’t quite understand hash marks:)
I love Catching Readers (both the book and the blog) though, so it was fun to see the Twitter comment. Thanks for sharing.
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I liked Nic Marks TEDTalk titled The Happy Planet for the same reason. He spoke of being positive about the changes economically and environmentally. Positivity is so much more motivating!
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