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Dear Subscriber,

I know there are only 3 or 4 of you, but I thought I should do the courteous thing anyway and let you know that I’m going to change my feed details soon. Currently, my RSS feed (as provided by FeedBurner) is titled “Ms. Michetti’s Virtual Classroom” — which is what this blog used to be titled back in the day, i.e., before I figured out what the heck I was doing here and why.

It’s been several months now since I figured that out, and I’ve since changed my blog title, which you’ve no doubt noticed. I therefore think it makes sense that I change my RSS feed address and title to more accurately match the blog title and URL.

And really – it’s easier to do now than it would be later, because hey, I only have 3 or 4 subscribers, right? 🙂 So apologies, but the next post you get from me will likely be under a new feed subscription, so you will have to delete the old feed, come back to the original site, and subscribe anew.

Apologies in advance for messing up your RSS reader!

Sincerely,

Ms. M

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“For every nine people who denounce innovation, only one will encourage it. . . . For every nine people who do things the way they have always been done, only one will ever wonder if there is a better way. For every nine people who stand in line in front of a locked building, only one will ever come around and check the back door.

“Our progress as a species rests squarely on the shoulders of that tenth person. The nine are satisfied with things they are told are valuable. Person 10 determines for himself what has value.” -Za Rinpoche and Ashley Nebelsieck, in The Backdoor to Enlightenment (Three Leaves)

The pessimistic side of me wants to say that in schools, the proportion is probably one out of every twenty, or perhaps even higher. But that’s just me being whiny.

What this book excerpt reminds me of:

Ian Jukes’s Committed Sardine metaphor
about 203,094,820 faculty meetings I’ve been to where one person speaks out about doing something differently, and gets verbally crucified
the feeling I have after I finish a really good yoga session, when I have the most clarity about what I determine as valuable for myself

Questions I have:

Is it in a person’s nature to be that 10th person? Or can one learn to question and be curious?
How long before that 10th person becomes tired of always being “the only one” who’s encouraging innovation, asking if there’s a better way, and going around to the back door? How many times before s/he gives up?
What would happen if the proportions shifted? What if, in a group of 10, there were 4 people who were always asking the questions and finding new ways of doing things? What would that look like?
Should leaders in our schools be the 10th person?

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