I'm mad at Mark Cuban right now, but okay...I'll read because it was you who shared, Don.

AHHHHHH! Happy, happy new year sweet friends! Love it.

And I have so many female friends who are cognizant of this--what we do to each other in such climates. I have so many more who are not, and I'll be honest--navigating all of it was incredibly demoralizing. Tough culture.

I'm offended for you. I adjunct now but once was full time faculty in higher ed, a full time instructional designer, and even did a brief stint as a higher level administrator as well. No doctorate. This weaponized against me a few times--mostly by women. Scarcity does awful things to culture.

Sure-- I'll write a short series of open posts over the next couple of weeks and share here. One big, quick 💡is it's not just about knowing your current self and identity well and Ts being responsive, but intentionally using learning experiences (even those we don't choose) to shape with intention.

I've been deliberately folding this sort of identity work into lesson, unit, and K-12 curriculum design. Not "share your identity" but "hmw use this experience to curate identity capital?" and then, "HMW use that capital to consider our strengths and needs and fit in other contexts?"

I need to try harder. Just blowing the dust off...

Also, hi Jenn! It's still pretty quiet here, eh?

Yeah, Zac was talking about this w/me last week. Reminded me: In their unpredictable industry, they have to constantly build identity capital w/intention. Said he had a few Ts who taught him how, explicitly.Made him more open-minded and creative. Able to learn in any context. Constraint=creativity.

Been reading and learning much about identity capital in recent weeks, and it gave me great hope. We can learn how to build identity capital in every single context we find ourselves in--chosen or not. If we're self-aware, even things we find boring help us build this capital. Makes us scrappy.

Thanks! We use Otter.ai to capture the stories shared as these artifacts are hung other. It helps us code the qualitative data and recognize patterns. The book feels like a scrapbook. Our data work is story making. Performance is also improving. This will be our third year together....

So worth it. Especially now. I find that that dedicated practice is a sort of self care. Documenting dignifies our learning and work, especially when it's hard.

Documentation helps us capture and elevate those data. They truly matter. Looks like this in my small world.

I hear you. I've been pushing back a bit on common understandings of triangulation and multiple measures because I experience the same. I find that when we gather evidence of learning and mastery from tasks, talk, and behavioral tendencies and look for patterns across,we warm things up a bit better.

This. This. This.

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