Can you believe it's harder today to find a date than it was 100lbs ago?
One would think with all of this da'hk chocolate decadence that my dating card would be filling out real nicely. However, there is much I am learning about myself as a sophisticated and sexy single in 2018. Today, I find myself enthralled with pivoting from wrangling the 26+ year old cerebral weight of being obese and undesirable to a newly developed reality--that I am amazing in the skin that I am in. After tens of hundreds of rejections personally and indirectly for being BIG and BLACK--I find myself comfortably positioned to create my own narrative of who I see in the mirror on the day to day. Hitting the gym 4 to 8 times a week has finally become a norm. Checking myself out in the mirror has become a new Love. And embracing this experience as part of my new normal makes me feel all ooey and gooey inside. I don't always like every aspect of who I am--but I dayum sure Love the Man I have become. I am not all shredded nor is that my goal. However, I am stronger and better for remaining committed to a more active lifestyle. In 2008, I was beyond 300lbs. I had traveled over 20 states, 3 countries, and served as a speaker and/or workshop presenter/facilitator at almost 50 conferences/summits while personally engaging with almost 5,000 people. In 2018, I am teetering at about 240. It is my second time chasing the 220s and it feels good. Passport stamps for 10 countries, 4 continents, and 30+ states ignite my curiosity for more. I have presented or spoken to approximately 50,000 or more people over the last 25 years and there's more to go. This blog is really more about me. I wrote this entry for me to remind me down the line that I am a Man of Value and Valor. My value does not lie within the confines of the scale. It is defined by how I scale my actions to what I am designed to do and who I am designed to be. Whatever you decide with this journey, keep these nuggets in mind:
Hopefully this helps at least one more soul. For what it's worth--my new-ish body is looking kinda DOPE these days.... EnJOY!
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Here are a few tools I use to support the teacher development process at the MJP:1. MJP Educator Evaluation Letter outlining my expectations for observation, feedback, and artifacts. I lean heavily on data action plans as the 1 artifact I evaluate progress/performance on (which we work on together throughout the year). Check in with me on how I do so. 2. MJP Educator Evaluation Deck by Craig Martin 3. MJP Observation & Feedback Google Tool inspired by Ben Helfat’s Transformational Leadership Presentation. If you are spending more time flipping through Expeditionary Learning, Focus, EngageNy, or Sadlier curriculum materials than you are unpacking the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks--you are probably starting off your planning on the wrong foot. John King, Former Secretary of Education, posits that exemplary schools “are on the cutting edge, pioneering innovative educational practices—professional learning communities, project-based learning, social and emotional learning, positive behavior systems...” Here the steps to getting us on the right path to #Excellence:
1. Decoding the Standard Using tools like Achieve the Core, the Common Core Companion Guide, Illustrative Mathematics, will aid us in unpacking the demand, rigor, and expectation of our standards. We must ensure we are first understanding what we must model for students how we wish them to adopt and apply the learning. 2. Determine how students will demonstrate mastery of the standards based learning target. A) What will serve as the medium for students’ demonstrating mastery of the learning target? Exit Tickets? Project? Simulation? Constructed Response? Flipgrid? Etc. B) What criteria will serve as the exemplar for what you are looking for? Is it clear? Is it rubric or rules based? Did you present and unpack the criteria prior to launching your lesson/unit of study? 3) Plan the Work. Work the Plan. A) Materials (including Exemplar of Independent Practice) B) Pacing (use a timer/set time stamps) C) Rigor (Depths of Knowledge) D) Differentiation (Resources by Edutopia) Guiding Questions to Plan For:
Sample Data Tracker Sample Skills Data Tracker Data Tracking Guidance Based Upon What You See Here, Can you Tell What I Value?
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