Where does time go...

I was thinking lately how the excuse that we give ourselves and others when we don't' attend to something regularly is that time just flies, we are busy and snap it's been a year. 

I often found it curious to live in a teacher cycle where we have 10-week rotations followed by a 2 week break then repeat 4 times a year. We then have a weird count down system where we look at 1-5 as wow so much of the term left the 6-10 as a holy crap where did time go mentality. 

Funnily enough, I neither like or dislike this cycle but just try to live in the present, in that moment of each week. However, deadline drive needs can make this a challenge. 

So rather than then give excuses for my year long absence or stress that recommitting myself to a guarantee writing time, article drop, I am merely going to say... 

Hello. Hello. Hello.

I was really lucky this week to attend a PD on education research that was aimed at inspiring teachers, on the ground to be the thinking, planning, implementing and reflecting on ideas and opinions we have to better education.

I love this concept - this idea that even with the daily grind of what we do we can still have an idea and explore it. Teachers need to be continual learners, in doing so it's the greatest gift we can give our students - modelling life long learning. 

Some thoughts from my PD were:

• What do we do with our professional learning? How and when do we implement this? 

• Did you know that 96% of teachers reported being bullied in the workplace - by colleagues, administration, parents and students?

• We need to improve on what we are doing rather than continual add ons.

• Teachers are at risk of PSTD more than most professions.

I'm going to leave it there for now - not bad for over a year of silence - without holding myself accountable to anything, lets hope next time it's just a Hi.