Hi Phenemonal Facilitators!!

YIPEE -- Another year of inquiry is underway -- thanks to your great work yesterday at the annual Kick-Off! Just wanted to take a quick moment to thank you all for participating in our kick-off yesterday, as well as our second face-to-face facilitator meeting. I hope you enjoyed the opportunity to interact with Gail Ritchie, and reflect on ways this process may become embedded in your district teacher professional development plan.

And now . . . A New Blog Prompt -- Reflections on The Kick-Off and Our Second Meeting. Take a minute a post your thoughts about yesterday - (Some questions you might want to address include: How did the day go for you and for the teachers and administrators from your district? What new insights did you gain yesterday that will be valuable to your work as a coach? How did the administration from your district perceive our work? How did the teachers from your group experience the day? What constraints/concerns/barriers do you anticipate as you coach the inquiry process this year?)

I think it would make sense to post your reflections on the kick-off as a personal blog entry, and then others can read and respond to your kick-off post, as well as have their own initial post in their blog space. If everyone titles this entry "Kick-Off Reflections" and uses "Kick-Off" as one of the Keywords/Descriptions, we should be able to click on Kick-Off in the right hand column "Key Words/Descriptions" and get to all the posts in one place. I think this might work the way Gayle was suggesting to organize us on-line yesterday. Let's try this and see how it works and then have an on-line discussion as to how it worked to follow up with our time with Chris yesterday. I'll do my own reflections later this evening in my blog space to get us started.

I'm enjoying reading everyone's contributions to our on-line Professional Learning Community. Have a great remainder of the week! Thank you all again for the incredible day you created yesterday! I'm pumped for a great year of inquiring -- I can hardly wait to see how each individual teacher's inquiry unfolds!

Nanc