Teacher's Journey ... exploring the work that structures who we become

Welcome, Journeymen and Journeywomen!

Our purpose here is to have a forum for asking questions, reflecting on experiences, sharing tentative perceptions and receiving responses from fellow travelers. During our collective journey as novice or master educators, "Teachers Journey" can serve as a collective journal, a source for conducting "action research," a safe haven for discovery learning -our learning as practitioners pondering practice.

Here, we can pose essential questions, explore/evolve our responses,  and pose essential questions about the nature of education, the process of becoming a teacher, the diversity of education career paths.

Here, we may also further investigate "best practices," instructional development, school as community, and support each other in using student strengths to help them meet their needs. My intention is that our journey together is vastly enriched because we form together an always accessible source of colleagial support. My intention is that our communications uphold the ideals that bring us together in this time and place on our planet.

Beneath this surface of intention is the hope that your search for who you are becoming as Teacher-Practitioner will be enhanced. I expect that your identity as Teacher-Practitioner will be quickened because you are here reading about it, writing about it.  Gathering reflectively strengthens our capacities for generating good in the world within and around us.  Let us give time and space to appreciating the contributions of those who have gone before us ... not only the Famous Luminaries ... Vygotsky, Brown, Glasser, Hunter!

Let us also articulate appreciation for those who have gone before us in our districts, these  Masters in Our Midst.  Who are these practitioner-leaders for you? Celebrate their achievements upon which you have been able to build, to enhance your success with your students.  Let us appreciate the positive intentions of those we easily understand and learn to reach more deeply to appreciate the concepts and processes we have yet to understand so readily.

Regardless of the geographic region in which you practice, welcome to this place to ponder, to reflect on our choices to serve anywhere, as educators.  Through this forum, may we inspire each other, walk with each other, keep the high watch for each other's best intentions.

May we remember that a kind word, a compassionate presence may be all our colleague needs to change a difficult day into one from which our learning emerges as profound and rewarding. Let us find ways to celebrate each little effort - both our own and anothers. Small efforts nourished, like seeds, can become contributions of great merit.

Finally, let our sharing illuminate our minds and hearts. Let "Teachers Journey" reflect our great collective capacity for making discoveries that enhance the journey of those who follow the trail we leave behind.

Thrive!