The one post I chose is from the Injenuity blog by Jennifer Jones (known as injenuity on most networks). Her post is about the concept of Viral Professional Development, a topic that really hit home with me given my own personal struggles with providing professional learning opportunities in my own district. As the “lone” instructional technologist for a school system with 12,500 students and growing, I find it disconcerting that I cannot make more of a difference and at times I wonder what kind of impact I can make (if any) in my role. When I read Jen’s blog post though, she made so much sense and I was able to breathe a little better. I ended up commenting on her post, which you can read by scrolling down her page, but I’ll reiterate here a couple of key pieces that truly resonated with me.

First of all was this:

“but I have found a strategy that is working well and keeping pace with my goals, expectations and work load”

That for me was huge and I still struggle with it. I want to do so much, but given my own personal pace, distractions at work, and work load it is difficult to stick to it.

The second was this:

“Just let it go.”

That’s a huge pill to swallow. To simply let something go is a frightening prospect for me, but that is exactly what I’ve had to do. Focus on what I can do and let the rest coast. Just breathe!

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