Les limites existent seulement dans l’esprit de ceux qui ne savent pas rêver.
Phillipe Petit
What did I know of Helena Marsh? Very little, if I am honest. Very little beyond the impression I made of her based on her Twitter persona (hardly definite). I wasn’t even sure how to pronounce “Helena” until I heard her pronounce it. So here is an opportunity to recognise Helena’s contribution to my professional life, promote the work of Kelly Long over at Inspiration4teachers, and promote WomenEd, all in one post. I found Helena’s Twitter contributions concise, informative and warm (a few stars hearts here and there). I can only presume that her conciseness / effectiveness allows her to invest her discretionary effort in the various leadership activities I she xomnected with, SLTcamps and WomenEd, both good examples. Other than that, I knew little.
After listening to the podcast I realised I could add tenacious, determined and practical (practical may be unsexy, but I believe Helena will see it as a real compliment.) I would note that Helena only offered that “this worked for us,” humble, rarely dishing up advice cold. I learnt that we both have an affection for the pebble/golf ball jar story and admiration for Jill Berry. We share a passion for talent development and the basic and practical tasks that make teaching work. I back mid term planning now I am teaching Maths. Helena, I learnt, is a great advocate for work-life balance so I shared a quote from the greatest balance artist of our generation Philippe Petit. Somewhat ironically, from what I read, one of educations misfits (incidentally, Philippe’s Tedtalk is embedded in that post).
The limits exist only in the minds of those who can not dream.
I think Helena and I would agree, “done is better than perfect.”
#ff Inspiration4T, HelenaMarsh81, jillberry102 and Philippe Petit.
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