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Crazy With Frenzy Ready To Change

We have been in a workshop for two days. A bunch of us, getting to know each other. Of course we all nod and agree that change makes sense. We like the idea of change. we say. for the presenter's sake. It will be fantastic when we get everybody on board. They will all jump up and down and yell and shout with glee When the school turns around and every child behaves And high-fives their teachers, and brings us all cupcakes on Friday. We are amazingly excited about these possible changes. We are enthusiastic. We are ready. We brag about it in our sessions. A workshop for teachers. Yes, we are ready to change. We cannot wait to get back. We are all secretly thinking ‘we will try it once,” but Few of us are realizing it takes twenty-one days of A new way, before any change can take place. Twenty-one days. Twenty-one tries. Some are even thinking this will not work. We hug each other as we leave the workshop, pretending we are going to implement a new idea. But doing things instinctively the same way we have always done them even if they have not worked is so much more comfortable. Right?

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Date: 10/29/2018 10:14:00 AM
True; an excellent pen.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/29/2018 10:29:00 AM
Thank you M.L. I had to eliminate half the words. Not even sure if they made sense in the end, but I was sick of reading them.
Date: 10/26/2018 7:14:00 AM
I've noticed this about corporate workshops, too... ;) I love how you juxtapose the hypey environment of the workshop to the reality of how people really feel (and the actual, practical outcomes). Beautifully done!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/26/2018 9:47:00 AM
Rhona, I could not help but think back to the most inflexible teacher I ever had the displeasure to work with in my professional life. In a workshop she was going to implement every idea, she learned all of the terms, she was the star of the workshop - memorizing every term, explaining how she would implement it. I was vastly impressed and fooled until we returned to school.
Date: 10/26/2018 4:17:00 AM
To hope for change in the right direction! Perhaps teachers could be given a sheet to fill out daily for progress then share weekly with each other how it’s going. Best wishes!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/26/2018 6:06:00 AM
Thank you Kim. I am a lover of change, but in this case, what they were talking about is what I already do.
Date: 10/25/2018 11:59:00 PM
I use to work in a classroom and gone to the work shops.. so I heard of new ideas I always impliment them in the class room and individual students and the ideas always work for me and the students.. like your write
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/26/2018 12:05:00 AM
I love it that you actually did implement the new ideas. I often try to do it, but sometimes I do not. This time I do not have to change anything, as what they were talking about for two days is what I do already.

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