I love the subversive. Maybe it has something to do being the underdog. I remember walking on to the soccer field for our first championship game. Johnstown was the defending champion, and we were just a small school from Nowheresville. Their players walked on to the field like the game was already a wrap. They were a team full of seniors. Would a team starting some freshman really be able to compete? If bets could have been taken, the odds would have been stacked against us. Isn't that what ignites a fire deep within us? When your back is against the wall, and you have nothing to lose...you find yourself rising little by little. What begins as a bite on their ankle soon has the attention of the whole body. Your bringing down giants, or in our case, sending the guys in blue packing with a 6-1 defeat.
Movements in education, in the same way, can bring down towering trees that desire to be unmoved. These trees, with deep rooted tendrils that tell us, "We've always done it this way," impede our actions for change. In most cases, movements started to bring about change are met with opposition and take significant periods of time to make an impact. What I have noticed though is the more flat the world becomes, the easier good ideas can spread. Take the inspiration flowing from the ever relevant 30 Goals Challenge. Teachers all over the world are making sincere steps toward improvement, and the school district didn't have to ask, beg, or cajole anyone to do it.
Little movements are the snowballs we push from the tops of hills. We stand back and watch the new paths they plow. What movement are you joining?
Consider the 5 for 1 project. or something else that fires you up!
Photo from Jankie
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