Sharpen the saw

I can't help but want to share my conversation with my middle schoolers today regarding this very topic. While trying to be more open to student voice, the health teacher and I decided to collaborate and combine our classes and lessons into a gallery walk activity. We loved every minute of it. The students raved about how they wanted to do it again to us and to other teachers. Well, we appreciated hearing this, but knew that it could have gone even better. So, today in English, we had a class conversation (where of course I sneak in the lesson/purpose of public speaking and listening skills) discussing the idea that we are excited to have found something that they are so engaged in yet want to hear their voice even more. I asked them to share their ideas on what they think went well, what they really want to see again, but also what they did not appreciate as much or suggestions to make certain areas better. I realized that our school practices this often when they replied so respectfully to this by saying, "Although I appreciate...., I feel that ..... could have been better if....." One of the first things that I mentioned is how we, as a school, should never settle what we think was "good", but how we can move to "great".

Personally and professionally, I have found that this is how I choose to live my life. I do my best to never settle, but reasonably push myself to be better in all that I do. This can be seen with training my three 95 lb dogs, my communication skills with my husband, and how I continue to find a new conference to attend, or some reason to go back to school. I have gone from my. Here is a summary of my educational path.
BA Liberal Studies> Multiple Subject Credential> MA in Education> Reading Specialist Credential> Leading Edge Certification> English Credential> MA in Leadership with an Emphasis in Technology> ?????