Sacrifices we make...

This week was the #gafesummit in napa.  I love the #gafesummit.  It is the best PD I have experience in my professional career.  I have attended two summits in the past 18 months.  I was honored to attend the first #gafesummit ever in July of 2012.  I am all about learning and being a life long learner.  I am a google freak.  I can't get enough of google and all that it what's done to change education.

This week I sent 11 staff members to #gafesummit.  They had a blast and learned so much.  I chose to stay behind and make sure the 925 students were ok and that the school survived 1/4 of the teaching staff being gone.  Someone needed to stay, so I put on my big girl pant and did it.  I had to take one for the team.  At first I was bitter, I mean really bitter.  I refused to go on twitter and didn't want to answer text messages from people at #gafesummit.  I wanted to distance myself from the whole thing.

What I discovered after talking to my friend, I needed to get over it.  I was only hurting myself by avoiding my PLN and going into my cave.  So, I went over twitter.  I learned so much from what people were posting on the #gafesummit hashtag, it was great.  

I was reminded about two things from this experience:

1. I need to get out of my own way. (My pearl of wisdom)

2. You can learned anywhere with the technology we have now.  I am sure I would have learned a ton at summit, but I still got something out of it on my sofa at night.

But, I will be at the next summit, I can't miss two in a row!!!

And @mrsfadeji, thanks for the sunshine award.  I will work on that next :-)