I heard Penelope Trunk on the radio over the weekend–I asked “who IS this woman?” and googled her blog called The Brazen Careerist. She is the total opposite of me (she IS brazen and brash and brilliant.) She writes about career/family issues as she is going through a divorce. Generation Y and Gen Xers are her peeps, but she tries to translate to us baby boomers what the hell is going on in the workplace, because it is now a foreign country populated by young folks dictating their own work needs. And we are a bunch of intractable bores still in the 9-5 paradigm. Of course “the workplace” is corporate, a far cry from the classroom; however, embracing new technology and looking at project-based learning are ways of breaking free of the rote methods by which we were taught (and fought against, remember?)
Please read “living up to your potential is bs.” As a parent and an aspiring special education teacher, this was a breath of fresh air and a big relief to me. She does sing the praises of social skills, not my area of expertise. But “kindness”–its a skill to take into the classroom, the office, onto the freeway, and home again.
