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Our Students HomeAbout Me30 Goals 2012Free Ebooks/ ResourcesBlog RollRSS FeedGoal 11: Feel The Weight of Your Impact #30GoalsEduPosted by Shelly Terrell on Tuesday, June 26th 2012      8 Goal 11 of The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! Click the link to find out more about the new changes to this year's 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! A Thought on Impact Everyday I wake up I feel the weight of my impact. I am connected to over 20,000 educators worldwide on social networks. On Twitter it's nearly 24,000. Educators follow the resources, messages, words, links, etc. that I share. They listen, then share with their communities. I plant seeds everyday. They spread the seeds. What if I took this role lightly? What if I carelessly shared or used my words to spread hatred or a certain convoluted idea. Over 20,000 is enough to start a mini- movement, a revolution, and even a war. History has proven this to us and so I carry the weight of my impact daily. I try not to forget and I try to inspire wherever I go even when I don't feel like it. My mood and my words have power. An Educator's Impact Millions of educators out there take their roles lightly, because they do not realize the weight of their impact. They don't realize that every time they walk into a classroom they plant seeds that may grow into weeds and stunt their students' learning journeys or worse produce more weeds. Weeds destroy a lot in their path and make beautiful plants difficult to grow. I've walked into many classrooms and heard teachers, principals, counselors tell a student he or she isn't good enough, is too dumb, or seal their fate by saying they will follow the steps of their trouble-making parents or siblings. The problem is that our students listen to us. They often become the products of our words and actions because we spend so much time with them. We don't just get them a few minutes. We often get them months or most of the year. We influence them. If a child beli

I have done this with my level 1 students - in groups they researched and made a youtube video about the functions of plants - photosynthesis and the like.  If anyone would like to see, go to this playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFCAD2BEBD47D5883&feature=mh_lolz

These are so cool Leigh.