Where we're going

I owe a few more posts to get caught up on where we are.
until then,


Today we met with the research and development team from the iZone. We shared our confidential feelings about the iLearn program here at Hudson, and teachers were very honest.
It is easy to say something is not working. It is easy to abandon it. We know that because we have a lot of resistance to our new ways of instruction.


Of all the suggestions for improvement, I leave there with two enduring thoughts.

1) We have an amazing team of dedicated, devoted, supportive staff members.
One piece of cool feedback that repeated in the discussion is we need more time! The thought was that we spend too much time sorting through our Virtual Learning platforms to design a meaningful lesson.

A follow up was that we WANT to design our own content, or at least be able to modify existing content to fit our needs and compliment what we are doing in the classroom.



- we are wasting time finding what works from what is available
- we wouldn't mind taking even more time per week if we were able to customize it and make it fit our needs.

What I conclude from this is that our struggle is not time. It is that we want to spend our time making something meaningful. Isn't this what we want for our students too?


2) You learn from your environment.
Staff feel supported. Distributive leadership is a huge strength in our school. Staff are frustrated but do not give up hope, and are motivated to continue to learn more.
We have great energy and through all the changes involved to get us where we are, we are making it through.

We have hope-"We know what it can be- it is just not there yet."