Passion Driven?

Are you driven by your passion? Or is the day-to-day activities draining your energy and making you less creative and less passionate about teaching?  

Author, Angela Maiers posted on her blog in January 2012 (yes, almost a year ago) about "The 5 C's of Passion Driven Leadership."   

I was looking through the internet for some professional development while off for winter break and I came across her blog. 

While she was primarily talking to school leaders (administrators, principals, school boards, etc.), I am reminded that we are the leaders in our classrooms. While we hope those in the Administration would follow her "5 C's", and have "passion driven conversations," we definitely should do this in our classrooms. We are leaders. We must be passionate leaders initiating these conversations each and every day with our students. We must model these conversations and these attributes to teach our students their learning can become passionate. As a result we will  develop life-long learners. 

Take a look at Angela's blog post and see what I've discovered in leading with passion in 2013 - Happy New Year!

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