I’ve been so impressed with the teachers at ORHS who are unafraid to figure out how to do things on their own. There have been many examples of teachers just needing a hint or a helpful start, who then say, “OK, let me go see if I can do this.”
In this month’s blog by George Couros, he says:

“There is no shame in not knowing something. There is so much to know. Yet as teachers, we need to know how to figure things out. What a lot of people will challenge here is that I am saying that content is not important. I am not saying that at all. It is just understanding that even the “experts” do not know everything, but to become an expert, you have to have an insatiable curiosity to grow, develop, and learn. Yet I have seen in education that we often hold back our students based on what we don’t know. For example, are teachers less likely to encourage students to create a video to share their learning, if the teacher doesn’t know how to make a video?
When we say to students, “I have no idea how to do this, but I am sure that many of you can figure it out”, that goes beyond engagement; it is empowerment. When I work with educators and I am brought into a room and they show me things that I have never seen or learned, I know that there is a different level of excitement in the room because they know that their knowledge is valuable to me, not only the other way around.”
Never hold a learner back based on what you don’t know. Develop that same insatiable curiosity, wonder, and drive to learn, that we should embody as educators.