Refocus & Revive: Finding Joy in the Journey
ICTE Fall Conference 2024
Teaching sometimes feels like driving through a construction zone. All may look clear according to the map, but an unexpected roadblock – a detour – has the potential to derail even the best adventure. Similarly, we plan and prepare in our classrooms, anticipating the journey ahead, only to learn mid-stride of new district initiatives, new legislation, new struggles facing our students and ourselves. It is easy, then, to lose sight of the joy that initially drew us to this noble profession. Now more than ever, we must take the opportunity to focus on what truly matters in education and reinvigorate our spirits with the passion and courage to forge ahead into the unknown.
- Deneen Nelson, Iowa Council of Teachers of English, Conference Chair