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No one said it would be easy!

When I set out to be a teacher over 20 years ago, I was going to be the one who would change the world for so many little people.  I was going to be the best teacher children ever had, I was going to be that teacher who would have the most vibrant happening classroom ever. We'll see.

According to some children I was the best teacher they ever had, it said so on all the cards and I did have the most funtastic classroom.  Did I change their world, I do hope so, only time will tell.

What I didn't bank on when becoming a teacher were the twists, turns and hairpin bends on the journey, I didn't know I would be subjected to an ever changing landscape of policies, procedures, trends,  pedagogies, governmental interference on a grotesque scale and the pack mentality of humans.

Teaching is a bit like Minecraft you start off with an ideal of what you will be i.e. Jesse.  You get to be part of an unwritten narrative driven plot, you get to collect things, in a teachers case: pencils, handkerchiefs, stones and hair bobbles!  You get to solve puzzles, learn about stories and make choices over what's happening next.

We all know Jesse doesn't have an easy task though she gets hassled by mobs, hoping for a diamond she sells her skull to a rip off merchant, never quite sure who she can trust etc. What about those jolly Wither Storms, we could call them ideology policies created in offices by folks with no idea of what school terrain is really like...

So my blogs are for all the Jesse's or Petra's out there who are still in the game, changing the face of education for millions of little people.

I will walk you through the landscape of my learning journey: good, bad, happy, sad, exciting, hilarious, fearful, warts and all. My journey taught me much more about what not to do. Let's face it as soon as you learn what to do some mob will change the goal posts anyway.

So be strong stay with the adventure and learn to be your own Jesse.