Weekly Question: How do we engage as professionals?
Essential Question: How do we operate as part of multi-layered overlapping professional communities? This week I am (mostly) bucking the trend I have set for myself and deciding to talk about whatever I want because I can't bring myself to write about the readings to just check a box. This has been an exhausting semester. And if we really want to talk about the EQ, operating as part of overlapping communities is e x h a u s t i n g. I have a full 12 hour load of college coursework and then attempt to spend 6-8 hours with/teaching/learning alongside high school freshman all while rarely leaving my house or getting fresh air because there's a pandemic. Operating amongst those two communities -- college students and high school students (and high school teachers) is already a whole lot of different worlds colliding, but it's difficult when none of them look like what you expected them to, not even because you had faulty expectations, just because the entire world has change