At the new year I chose the word, “freedom”. I hired a coach for 3 months to help me along this path. At the same time, I chose to be free of the Wonder Teacher Certification that I did not complete in round #1. I did complete my journals and turned the ones I submitted into the blog posts you’ve been following here!

Now I am turning to “crushing it”! My 3 goals for round #2 in the Wonder Teacher Certification are to:

1. Conquer my fear of speaking up, to free my passion from my holding back.
   1. Continue my blog weekly, now using my photo journal
   1. Take family communication and conversation to a new level

• To re-open my nature inspired school with a “back to the future” emphasis, meaning re-introducing cooking, woodworking and really digging into child led learning! We caved along the way to different pressures that now we will overcome. I have made too many excuses the last 5.5 years of not being physically present. The CoVid 19 virus helped to connect myself and our Director in a concrete way that never happened when we had the everyday pressures of work in different cities to contend with.
  • Conquer my fear of speaking up and not opening up the center as soon as allowable (see #1)
  • Engage the whole team in prepping, planning, building and facilitating learning when the children return in August
• Gain knowledge to work on goals 1 and 2.
  • I will read some of the books you have recommended, and I promptly put on a “to read” list for someday.
    • Start/join a book study group

I believe these goals intertwine and I am working on breaking them down to even more manageable pieces.

Thank you all for being on this journey with me!