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Over the past few days, I decided I need to follow through on my big dreams. I thought, What's a big, attainable goal I could possibly work toward at this point in my career? Going paperless as a school, that's what! I love the idea of being Paperless. (A great blog to read on this idea is, unsurprisingly, TeachPaperless.) The advice that goes along with setting big goals is making that goal attainable and manageable.
I'm going to start small by going paperless in my classroom. I've set up a classroom blog, where students who are absent can see what they've missed, etc. I'll be communicating with parents via email and the blog (and possibly Twitter). My colleagues like the idea of eliminating paper-clutter, so we're starting small with Diigo for a couple PLC's and looking at rolling Diigo out to our whole staff sometime this year.
Sometimes I have to start small to dream big. I told my wife when we moved into our current (and third in the three years we've been married) apartment last August that I wanted a lawn mower for my next birthday (which is next month). Why did I want a lawn mower if we were moving into an apartment? To need a lawn mower, we'd need a lawn. And to get a lawn, we'd need to buy a house. I missed my goal by a month. We're moving into our new house at the end of August.
