The Let's Go Librarian

The first thing I'd like to do when teachers come back in the fall is organize an Ignite session. If you haven't heard of Ignite, it's a series of presentations ala TED talks where presenters have 5 minutes and 20 automatically-advancing slides. Just like TED, speakers share a variety of passions, from the importance of bike lane safety to the pentatonic scale to the inherent pettiness of women's actions towards one another.

The point lies in sharing passions.  After attending the annual ISTE conference this past week, I'm starting to see how passion is going to be one of the major driving forces in educational reform--our passions as individuals, as educators, as change agents, as guides for helping our students and communities discover their own passions.

I'd like to start Ignite Timberline with staff members sharing what they love. I think it will give us the opportunity to start connecting as individuals, not just as committee members or that guy who teaches across the hall, and as we begin sharing our passions we can start looking for ways to use them to impact our students and our school community.

Won't you join us in August for Ignite Timberline?