A Brief Note of Thanks

Over the duration of this course, and some of you for far longer than just this course, I have come to rely on your professional judgements and collaboration to help me in many real world instances.  I have come to know and appreciate all of the different backgrounds from which we can bring information to the table  to make our learning community diverse and wonderful.  I wish all of you the best of luck on the duration of your journey to your degree. 

Thank you!
Jamie Reid

The Importance of the Adjourning Phase

The adjourning phase is hardest for me when close bonds have been formed among the members of the team. I think that this is because you get to know one another on a professional level, but also on a personal level.
      The group that I was a part of that was hardest for me to leave was my early childhood education cohort.  We had been through so much together- happy and sad, good and bad; we all took a journey to a very meaningful career together. We were all experiencing the same sort of things and then having to work through them and learn from them.  Graduation was our closing ritual and it was a celebration of all that we had accomplished as individuals and as a group.  
     I imagine that leaving my colleagues from the masters program will be similar.  Although this program has been online, there are people that I met during my very first course in the program that I still have contact with.  We have formed a support system to help us through the obstacles that we face.