Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Challenge

This blog is both a challenge and a commitment

The past few years I have sent emails to my colleagues with links and thoughts about CRT.  I am hoping to streamline and avoid being put into a spam filter by using this space as a place to post my found treasures that are too good to keep to myself, and thoughts about CRT.  I can see the potential of this venture in my mind's eye, but I have a fear to overcome.  There is an permanence about this forum that makes me cancel before I click "publish post".  It is the same feeling that I get when I am tackling something new, or trying to speak Spanish to my completely bilingual family.  It is the thrill of the challenge that is appealing. 

This is the third time I have tried this.  I think I am finally ready to let my thoughts out.  With the new school year right around the corner, I have been thinking about challenges. You (we) are wired to take on challenges.  Or, as I have said before in conversations, inquiry.  We are wired to be intellectually stimulated.  Here are some questions I think are worth pondering:
  • What is the difference between welcoming and frustrating challenges?
  • What are ways the classroom can be intellectually stimulating?

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