conversations today

Today, I met a new assistant Principal shopping for groceries. The deli counter is always a natural place for conversations to occur. He was from across Long Island Sound, where I grew up. New to the county and having had many opportunities to take classes for teacher development at Harvard in Massachusetts we discussed the state of affairs in my county, Fayette, Georgia. He feels if we the teachers (this is my declaration for next week) lean on the BOE folks, technology will eventually take off for us. I promise to find out about permission and how to achieve an okay to start a class blog in the near future. (I still need to get kinks out on this blogging) But the end of our conversation he compared our county with a county close to the border of Rhode Island and Connecticut and said we are still so far ahead with what we have . I believe we should be careful with what we want, and tread lightly as we seek changes. Thoughts about my first Walden course on Professionalism should resound with many of us... our efficacy as teachers need to always come first. We do come first before the computer. The computer is another form of communication. vmp