Two years ago I started a blog and I got as far as naming it! I got so bogged down with all the mechanical details of it that I forgot the reason I wanted to have a blog in the first place. This week I spent two days at the Texas Computer Education Association's annual conference in Austin and one of the first sessions I attended was on blogging. It got me excited all over again and it gave me some real cool tools to make it a manageable task. So here I go again!
This will be my space to rant and rave, vent and vex about education, my passion. I am calling it "Mining for Hidden Gems" because of the following quote:
"Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures." -Bahá'u'lláh
As a teacher, my job is to look for those gems. The real valuable ones are not usually on the surface. You have to dig deep to find them.
I am also borrowing from Katherine Bomer's wonderful book Hidden Gems: Naming and Teaching From the Brilliance in Every Student's Writing. It has changed the way I look at not just student work but students themselves and all people around me.
This will be my space to rant and rave, vent and vex about education, my passion. I am calling it "Mining for Hidden Gems" because of the following quote:
"Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures." -Bahá'u'lláh
As a teacher, my job is to look for those gems. The real valuable ones are not usually on the surface. You have to dig deep to find them.
I am also borrowing from Katherine Bomer's wonderful book Hidden Gems: Naming and Teaching From the Brilliance in Every Student's Writing. It has changed the way I look at not just student work but students themselves and all people around me.
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