Dr. Leslie Kressin

Do students find their purpose and passion in schools, or do they leave more confused about what they want to do because of the experience? One of the things that I am incredibly grateful for is that more schools and organizations are helping students explore nontraditional tracts of learning in education. This gives students the opportunity to learn, experience, and explore options that were not provided to me when I was in school. I love writing now, but I didn’t when I was in school. I wrote about this in The Innovator’s Mindset: ________________________________ “For the first time ever, at about the age of thirty-one, I identified myself as an educator not by profession but by passion. Getting there took someone else tapping into my strengths and interests and helping me see my own gifts and passions. A few years later, at age thirty-five, was when I first saw myself as a learner. And now five years later, as I complete this book’s final chapter, I see myself as a writer. In eighteen years of school as a student, writing paper after paper, I never once saw myself as a writer. But when I finally began to explore my own passions and started to deepen my own learning, I discovered that I actually enjoy writing.” ________________________________ Was going from class to class, in totally different subject areas, helping me, or did it make me more confused about what I wanted to do? I would think the latter, and the tricky part about education, is helping students find their purpose and passion while also exposing them to things they might not know they love. It is wonderful to see more schools finding a balance of both.

"Don’t dim your light because someone else isn’t ready for you. Keep going. And whatever you do, don’t become something you are not that doesn’t align with your belief system." They might not be ready for you. buff.ly/43I2GrG