{"id":31,"date":"2018-07-02T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T13:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-jkurzawa\/?p=31"},"modified":"2018-07-02T09:20:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T13:20:31","slug":"step-outside-your-comfort-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-jkurzawa\/2018\/07\/02\/step-outside-your-comfort-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Step Outside Your Comfort Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the few moments before I shadow a meeting this morning, I stop by the blog to stress the importance of teachers (and students) stepping outside of their \u201ccomfort zone\u201d to learn new skills and become better at the craft.<\/p>\n<p>I say this because until today, I had never heard of \u201cmechatronics engineering.\u201d Soon, I\u2019ll be sitting with a project manager as he reviews upcoming work with his team- hopefully getting a little taste of something that I\u2019ve never heard of before.<\/p>\n<p>As teachers, we have our content areas in which we are knowledgeable, and are able to talk confidently to our students. However, it is essential that we are able to expand our minds, and our boundaries, so that we are able to educate our students in a well-rounded fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s to new adventures and learning something we never thought possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the few moments before I shadow a meeting this morning, I stop by the blog to stress the importance of teachers (and students) stepping outside of their \u201ccomfort zone\u201d to learn new skills and become better at the craft. I say this because until today, I had never heard of \u201cmechatronics engineering.\u201d Soon, I\u2019ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-jkurzawa\/2018\/07\/02\/step-outside-your-comfort-zone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Step Outside Your Comfort Zone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-jkurzawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-jkurzawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-jkurzawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-jkurzawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-jkurzawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-jkurzawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-jkurzawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-jkurzawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-jkurzawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2019-jkurzawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}