To my friends, fellow teachers, parents, students and social media followers:
It is time for yet another amazing school year. It's time for learning growing and celebrating together. With that comes reflection and goal setting. As I reflect on my summer full of fun, family and professional learning, I decided to put it all into one word. The word I chose is CREATE. Summer for me was full of creation: creating memories, creating opportunities, creating conversations, creating connections, creating challenges, and the list goes on. Creating meant embracing the opportunity to learn, play, grow and accept challenge.
Whether I tried to increase my running speed and almost flew off the back of the treadmill, watched my fearful daughter go from no desire to dive into the pool to diving off the board, watched our youngest master her bike without training wheels, celebrated ten years of marriage or connected with other educators across the country for tips and ideas; Creation was happening Creation goes beyond the idea tangible things. Creation is conversations, ideas and moments.
So as I gear up for another great year, I want to share my word of the year and challenge you all to do the same. May you all CREATE a year full of memories, opportunities, connections, challenges, ideas and moments. May those moments be full of memories, memories full of connections, connections full of opportunities and opportunities full of challenges. This my friends, will create a great year!!
Best wishes to a great 2018-2019 school year!!
-Heather
Whether I tried to increase my running speed and almost flew off the back of the treadmill, watched my fearful daughter go from no desire to dive into the pool to diving off the board, watched our youngest master her bike without training wheels, celebrated ten years of marriage or connected with other educators across the country for tips and ideas; Creation was happening Creation goes beyond the idea tangible things. Creation is conversations, ideas and moments.
So as I gear up for another great year, I want to share my word of the year and challenge you all to do the same. May you all CREATE a year full of memories, opportunities, connections, challenges, ideas and moments. May those moments be full of memories, memories full of connections, connections full of opportunities and opportunities full of challenges. This my friends, will create a great year!!
Best wishes to a great 2018-2019 school year!!
-Heather
