During grad school, my professor, Gail, had these letters after her signature line, NBCT. I remember wondering what they meant and when I discovered it was a national teacher certification, I wanted those letters after my name, too. So for a year, I wrote, filmed myself teaching, self-reflected on my teaching and wrote some more. In all, I completed four written portfolios to document my teaching of literacy, plus took a written exam. I passed in 2010 and renewed in 2020. Ever since, my signature line includes the letters NBCT. I was nudged by seeing those letters after my professor’s name and wanted to be like her.
When I started blogging, I became friends with Fran through this community, on twitter, and also met u[ with her in-person at TCRWP and at NCTE conferences. I recall how her blog nudged me to become a blogger who tags. (click HERE for that story!)
Also, when I started slicing, I was drawn to Erika’s slices because we often posted next to each other and we were both 3rd grade teachers at the time. She would slice about using Padlet and I wondered what that was. She was having her kids use kidblog and I wondered what that was. She was trying something called a Mock Sibert Award and I wondered what that was. Reflecting now, Erika’s blog nudged me and I became a better teacher who figured out how to use cool tech tools and a cool NF reading unit.
Yesterday, I noticed on Erika’s wordpress page, in the column on the right when I scrolled down, lists books she was reading. How clever! How did she make that happen? Another nudge. I want to do that! And thanks to the directions found by goggling, I just added the goodreads widget to my blog.
What or who nudges you?!!
NOTE: When looking for an image to add as my Featured Image, I discovered there is a book called Nudge. I’m using their image from the book. Maybe I should read it, another nudge!