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| Dr. Paul Dordal (blog) |
Over the concluding 5 years I accept immersed myself inwards the "Twitterverse" together with slow built upward my Personal/Professional Learning Network (PLN). Twitter rapidly became a agency for me to connect alongside other educators, together with specifically educational leaders. In fact, Twitter became a agency for me to escape the silo together with feel of isolation I was experiencing spell working equally a Lead Learner at Cantiague Elementary. Yes, I was surrounded yesteryear a grouping of incredible kids, passionate educators together with amazing families but I was the solely "administrator" inwards the edifice together with I was looking for an chance to learn, grow together with hold upward inspired yesteryear others inwards my position!
Likeminded
Well, Twitter rapidly became the infinite where I learned, connected alongside other likeminded educators together with shared my thinking. In fact, I learned to a greater extent than through my connections on Twitter inwards a affair of months than I had learned inwards years of manage workshops, conferences together with grad courses. The thing virtually Twitter that actually hooked me is its performance equally a Virtual Community of Practice where tens of thousands of educators are openly sharing ideas, problems of exercise together with resources because most barriers had been removed (the glory of a digital platform). There is a feel of fluidity on Twitter where a mortal could hold upward a novice at i instant when the topic is unfamiliar to them together with and thus a instant after becomes the goodness inwards "the room" because of their experiences together with cognition alongside a dissimilar topic/subject.
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| Rod Sullivan (site) |
Twitter has provided me access to thus many likeminded educators that I rapidly realized that I could acquire virtually almost whatever topic inwards a affair of minutes yesteryear reaching out to specific members of my PLN. Whether I wanted to acquire to a greater extent than virtually schoolhouse civilization or wanted to ameliorate sympathise how nosotros could implement sustainable PD or figure out how to usage the Google Suite to heighten my workflow, I went to the likeminded together with experienced people inwards my PLN together with instantly had access to ideas together with resources that were actionable together with impacted my piece of job equally an educational leader.
Like-Hearted
As the months together with years of accessing Twitter rapidly flew by, I started to observe something happening alongside for certain members of my PLN. While I abide by together with value the thousands of likeminded educators who inform my exercise on a daily basis, I of late realized that at that spot was a specific grouping that I kept coming dorsum to; a specific grouping that informed my exercise but also sustained me on an emotional level; a specific grouping that went from professional person colleagues to personal friends.
I started to move aware of this phenomenon when I noticed that members of my Twitter PLN started showing upward inwards my Facebook feed together with were becoming my "friends" on that platform. While I do accept hundreds of friends on FB, it is a infinite that I mostly continue for sharing personal posts, thoughts, celebrations together with struggles. As some of my novel friends began commenting together with reacting to my posts, I noticed nosotros were interacting on a dissimilar level. I started to acquire to know to a greater extent than virtually my novel friends together with realized that some of the connections nosotros shared went beyond that likeminded degree together with deepened because nosotros are like-hearted.
The like-hearted people inwards my PLN are the people who accept gotten to know me equally a father, partner, educator together with person. They know what makes me laugh, they sympathise what frustrates me, they recognize what makes me go, "Awe!" together with they appreciate what touches my heart. Basically, the like-hearted members of my PLN sympathise what makes me tick together with through their presence inwards my world, accept made it a ameliorate place. I tin say, alongside 100% certainty, that my like-hearted friends accept shaped who I am equally a mortal today.
Why Do Like-Hearted People Matter?
As I refined my science gear upward equally a leader during my fourth dimension at Cantiague, together with specifically equally I explored Twitter, I started to realize that I relied on my catch equally much equally I relied on my brain. Yes, beingness logical, thoughtful together with responsive are mostly my guiding principles equally a leader but I am also passionate, emotionally invested together with I pour my catch together with soul into my work. While the likeminded members of my PLN accept helped inform my exercise on that logical/rational level, the like-hearted people accept non solely done that but through our friendships (some of my best friends on the planet) they accept also sustained together with inspired me on an emotional level. My like-hearted friends accept added to a greater extent than sparkle together with positivity to my professional person solid soil than I could accept always imagined. My like-hearted friends accept reminded me that beingness an educator together with working inwards schools alongside kids is a calling. In fact, my like-hearted friends accept inspired me to dedicate myself to reframing the narrative inwards world pedagogy yesteryear spotlighting all the positive things happening inwards our schools!
You see, our piece of job equally educators impacts our whole beingness - nosotros bespeak to usage everything from our brains to our hearts to our bodies inwards lodge to do what is best for our kids. And equally I intend virtually it, the same is truthful of our students together with their learning; our kids are using every fiber of their beingness to successfully navigate the day. So when nosotros are "all in" together with nosotros pour a 100% of ourselves into our piece of job together with learning, who are the people nosotros (us equally educators together with our students) plough to when nosotros bespeak support? Who are the people nosotros plough to when nosotros bespeak inspiration? Who are the people who back upward us when nosotros are struggling? Who are the people who brand us express mirth when nosotros bespeak it the most? Who are the people that acquire us? Those people are mostly the like-hearted people inwards our worlds.
So, brand for certain you lot respite together with reverberate on your PLN (make for certain your colleagues together with students respite together with reverberate on their people simply about them too) together with recognize those like-hearted people who accept made your solid soil a ameliorate house together with accept made you lot a ameliorate version of yourself!
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