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PD Musings: Guided Reflection
I love having thinking protocols to guide reflection. In the opening module from an online training course (professional development) I’m taking on facilitation, we are encouraged to use this protocol to reflect in writing: What? Which aspect(s) of the materials resonated with you most? So what? Why is this information important to you? Now what? How are you going to take action as a result of your new learning? Let me begin. Here are some nuggets that resonated with me and why: “The group must define and solve its own…
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The Performative Art of Leadership
[I’ve been away from regular writing for three months, very busy settling into a new location and position. I’m going to ease back to writing and reflecting now. ] I savored the opportunity to play someone who had to be very guarded,” Chalamet says. “I often find myself in projects where the characters wear their emotions on their sleeves, and this was not the case at all. To be a politician, to be a leader, there’s an element of performance to it — but you also have to have a poker…
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Speaking and Not Understanding
After 2 weeks of redoing a web presentation of VCU’s ECAR findings, I’m at Round 3 (or more, I forget, after trying to push some data up quickly by redoing charts over and over) — figuring out what is at the heart of this project, and what we want to show from these findings. I hear a number of words repeated over and over. Here’s my depiction of that situation. The problem is that the mental model I have about research and dissemination of research findings is sloshing around in the whirlpool…
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AERA 2011 Learning Experience
AERA NOLA Apr 7-12. It is taking me a while to resettle into Syracuse. I feel out of touch with my dissertation writing after all my professional duties at AERA. But I wouldn’t have given it up for anything. This is an experience no formal course can ever teach me. I love meeting and working with people from other universities who are now my friends. When I go to AERA, I don’t feel alone or lonely; I belong to a community. Being a GSC rep will definitely count as a…
