“You can’t just sit there and wait. Use this opportunity to focus on things that you’ve been wanting to work on for a long time. You still need to be you and find ways to do the things that you’re passionate about. ” — JAIME CASAP
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Go after your objectives now We don’t know how long this is going to last. It could be two weeks, six months, or even 18 months. And what you need to do is get yourself out of the waiting game. Many people are just sitting there waiting and spending the day watching the news and panicking — and waiting for life to become normal again. And what we need to recognize is that it’s probably not going to happen for a while, so you need to find creative ways to pursue the things you’re passionate about. Make sure you’re putting together your to-do list and using this as an opportunity to focus on things that you’ve been wanting to learn and things that you’ve been wanting to do for some time. Read more at this link. See more of how Jaime is managing through global change on his YouTube channel at youtube.com/jaimecasap.
Jaime Casap, ’93 MPA in public administration, is the chief education evangelist at Google. He evangelizes the potential of digitalization as an enabling capability in pursuit of promoting inquiry based learning models. He collaborates with school systems, educational organizations and leaders focused on building innovation into our education policies and practices.
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