This is really happening ... North Texas Regional Consortium Visioning Conference

When the email came through showing our course listing for the North Texas Regional Consortium Visioning Conference, it made all of our hard work over the past seven month become VERY real! While we are excited to share our ideas, we still have a lot of work to accomplish and realize we could work on these book clubs every moment of every day and never truly get finished. We can't wait to see what campus and district leaders think about our vision and hear suggestions they may have to make it even better as we continue our work.

At the Crossroads of Success and Failure ...

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It's been a crazy few months going back and forth with my partner in literacy, Karen Gullatt, on our vision of creating digital book clubs for educators to use with guided reading groups. There were many times along the way that we questioned whether this project was going to work or be useful to anyone in education. However, we were constantly encouraged and challenged to stay focused on our vision and never give up.

Thanks to many people ... Cynthia Alaniz for helping us select a variety of great children's literature to get us started, Alli Pryor for helping us with planning and district expectations for iTunes U and most importantly to our principal's, Chantel Kastrounis and Dr. Andra Penny for allowing us time to work on our projects together!

While we are only at the beginning of our journey, we have pushed past months of planning, failures and setbacks and have finally felt the joy of success with the publication of our first iTunes U digital book clubs!