June 11, 2021

It’s the end of the school year — our COVID year — and I don’t want the year to end anymore.  Yes, that’s what I said.  This is the first year in a very long time that I don’t want to stop teaching for the summer.  I don’t want to lose my momentum.

Why?  In a word: Agility.

This last quarter (nine weeks) of school was a game-changer for me.  My friend and colleague, Jessica Cavallaro, asked me the question that would change my life: “Hey Ros, do you want to do this thing called ‘Agile’ with me?” 

At that time, I had no idea what Agile was. But I know Jessica.  I know that she, like me, is passionate about providing students in her class with real, authentic, challenging, and fun opportunities to learn and push boundaries.  So of course my answer to her was “why not”?

Learning Agility is mind-boggling, but only at first. It’s a new way of thinking.  You identify an objective, an end goal.  You identify key results and outcomes that will show proof that your goal or objective has…