I believe I’ve finally found the questions I’ve been yearning for. I also love how it feels like we’re at coffee together and having a conversation as I read this piece. Happy New Year!
There are so many great things in this post that I’m taking with me into the new year! I love the questions and the different types of rest. Thank you for sharing the story of your dad doing his winter reflection. Regenerative farming is such an apt metaphor for education.
Love this approach, we are doing something similar in Learning Pioneers to kick off the new year! HNY to you Ruth and thanks for the excellent reading in 2025! Looking forward to engaging more this year!
Happy memories. Walking and reflecting with someone with whom you feel totally safe can be such a bright spot in an otherwise tough week. These are the habits we need to stay in this profession for the long haul.
I realized as I read your insightful words that I have been doing this practice.
For 25 years now, I've been engaged in curriculum design. For the last 5 of those, I've been creating Open Educational Resources (OER) and implementing its offspring, open pedagogy (or in my case, androgogy).
Now thanks to neoliberal "austerity" (a strange word for silencing academics), I am a Rōnin, working my garden alone but contented.
I've got open garden plots you can work alongside me, if anyone (especially in math and science) wants to learn the ropes and implement your beautiful keep/cut/create strategy in their own lives.
As with all my "intellectual" "property", this shiz is CC BY-SA.
Thank you for this fabulous post! I will be borrowing—and crediting—ideas from this for a monthly meeting of literacy leaders later this month. If you’re interested in joining us and happen to already be an NCTE member, I invite you to join us! (Winter dates will update asap—they are just going through final approval!) https://ncte.org/groups/cel/virtual-events/
Wow! I would love to join but I'm not a member. I was an English teacher for 10 years before I went into school leadership, so your work is close to my heart. Thanks for sharing in your meeting; I would love to have more of my English teacher comrades participating in the conversations here. :)
I don’t want to brag, but I’m resting right now lol
I believe I’ve finally found the questions I’ve been yearning for. I also love how it feels like we’re at coffee together and having a conversation as I read this piece. Happy New Year!
Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment! 😊
There are so many great things in this post that I’m taking with me into the new year! I love the questions and the different types of rest. Thank you for sharing the story of your dad doing his winter reflection. Regenerative farming is such an apt metaphor for education.
Thanks for the encouragement; I’m glad these ideas were helpful! 😊
I am going to share this with my team! So much to reflect on. Thank you!
Miss you, Jenny! Hope you're getting some good hikes with friends in-- those cover physical, social, and sensory rest all in one!
Love this approach, we are doing something similar in Learning Pioneers to kick off the new year! HNY to you Ruth and thanks for the excellent reading in 2025! Looking forward to engaging more this year!
What a beautiful piece! Thank you for this reflection and reminder, and may we all make the time for intentional living in 2026!
Those walking meetings!!! Love these questions, Ruth. ❤️
Happy memories. Walking and reflecting with someone with whom you feel totally safe can be such a bright spot in an otherwise tough week. These are the habits we need to stay in this profession for the long haul.
I realized as I read your insightful words that I have been doing this practice.
For 25 years now, I've been engaged in curriculum design. For the last 5 of those, I've been creating Open Educational Resources (OER) and implementing its offspring, open pedagogy (or in my case, androgogy).
Now thanks to neoliberal "austerity" (a strange word for silencing academics), I am a Rōnin, working my garden alone but contented.
I've got open garden plots you can work alongside me, if anyone (especially in math and science) wants to learn the ropes and implement your beautiful keep/cut/create strategy in their own lives.
As with all my "intellectual" "property", this shiz is CC BY-SA.
This I Believe: https://colorado.pressbooks.pub/neuroscience/front-matter/on-becoming-a-neuroscientist/
Yes, these 3 questions are very important to curriculum design, for sure! Thanks for reading. :)
Thank you for this fabulous post! I will be borrowing—and crediting—ideas from this for a monthly meeting of literacy leaders later this month. If you’re interested in joining us and happen to already be an NCTE member, I invite you to join us! (Winter dates will update asap—they are just going through final approval!) https://ncte.org/groups/cel/virtual-events/
Wow! I would love to join but I'm not a member. I was an English teacher for 10 years before I went into school leadership, so your work is close to my heart. Thanks for sharing in your meeting; I would love to have more of my English teacher comrades participating in the conversations here. :)