Read/Write web tools promise a lot, but why aren’t people adopting them? If problem-based learning is so great, and information literacy and problem-solving approaches (like Big6), are so powerful…so obvious…why aren’t more using them? We continue to see pockets of innovation but no wide-spread success. Blogs enable us to stay in touch, to keep the flame alive, but why aren’t such smart people making more progress?

What Fullan says is that we’re missing out on HOPE, or “unwarranted optimism,” and find ourselves waiting for THE SOLUTION to drop in from the sky, like manna. We expect that Silver Bullet solution will arrive some day to save us, but the fact is, we’re it. We’re the silver bullet.

Read what Fullan has to say:

We have witnessed pockets of innovation, but little that could be characterized as large-scale patterns of success. The main problem, I would say, is not the spread of good ideas. Making reform widespread is related to replicating the conditions of successful change, not to transferring products (Healey and DeStefano 1997)…The education leader of the 21st century, paradoxically, will find greater peace of mind by looking for answers close at hand and reaching out, knowing that there is no clear solution.

“Life is a path you beat while you walk it,” wrote the poet Antonio Machado…”It is the walking that beats the path. It is not the path that makes the walk”
Source: Fullan, M. (1998). Breaking the bonds of dependency. Educational Leadership, 55(7), 6-11.

Consider this quote (not from the article above) but from Whitney Houston’s song, One Moment in Time, that affirms what each of us has to offer:

Each day I live, I want to be, a day to give the best of me. I’m only one, but not alone, my finest day, is yet unknown….all of my dreams are a heartbeat away, and the answers are all up to me….

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