Comments on: Is Your School Like a Glow Stick? http://mooreonthepage.com/archives/397 I Teach | I Read | I Learn | I Live Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:17:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Steve J. Moore http://mooreonthepage.com/archives/397/comment-page-1#comment-178 Steve J. Moore Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:07:04 +0000 http://mooreonthepage.com/?p=397#comment-178 Thanks for the response, I hear what you're saying. The metaphor could connote that ideas burn out eventually. My response is: they do. Life is not about avoiding changes but dealing with them. I think there's a Rick DuFour quote out there that uses the term "continual disquiet" about change in PLCs. Metaphors do have their limit, but they bring up otherwise interesting questions. When te glow stick fades you've got to break another one out, dig for more ideas with your staff. Thanks for the response, I hear what you’re saying. The metaphor could connote that ideas burn out eventually. My response is: they do.

Life is not about avoiding changes but dealing with them. I think there’s a Rick DuFour quote out there that uses the term “continual disquiet” about change in PLCs.

Metaphors do have their limit, but they bring up otherwise interesting questions. When te glow stick fades you’ve got to break another one out, dig for more ideas with your staff.

]]> By: Michelle Baker-Herring http://mooreonthepage.com/archives/397/comment-page-1#comment-177 Michelle Baker-Herring Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:57:08 +0000 http://mooreonthepage.com/?p=397#comment-177 I love the analogy, but what eventually happens to a glow stick? It stops glowing. That part of the analogy makes me nervous in that once it is broken, we make changes and new initiatives begin to shine through the "breakage" then it slowly begins to fade, as so many new initiatives do...I would want to come up with a way to describe the glow stick analogy in a positive "light" rather than a negative one when the glow begins to fade away. Any thoughts on how to describe the dimming of the glow? I love the analogy, but what eventually happens to a glow stick? It stops glowing. That part of the analogy makes me nervous in that once it is broken, we make changes and new initiatives begin to shine through the “breakage” then it slowly begins to fade, as so many new initiatives do…I would want to come up with a way to describe the glow stick analogy in a positive “light” rather than a negative one when the glow begins to fade away. Any thoughts on how to describe the dimming of the glow?

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