New Year's resolution!

In the past year, with all your help, we have achieved something special.  While our end of year report dealt with facts and figures and all that stuff, that's not what we are talking about this time.

In 2008 we began with about 10 members and modest expectations of what we were going to achieve.  With all of the circumstances surrounding CRTs and their generally low standing in the Education community compared to their full-time counterparts we never expected to go very far.  There were those out there telling us we never would too.

Our membership continued to grow anyway. 

Here we are, 4 years later.  We run meetings, PD workshops, a blog that gets visited up to 1500 times a month, a YouTube channel that's starting to be watched more and more, obtained top class presenters on behalf of local CRTs and, most importantly, helped to create a solid and supportive CRT community. 

Through the whole journey people were telling us this would never happen.  The network would never grow, never work, never last... every step of the way.  We managed it anyway.
This is where our New Year's resolution comes from, the circumstances that created it.

Our New Year's resolution is to help every member to do something special.  To help them in those times when someone says "you're only a CRT, you won't be able to do that".

Our New Year's resolution is to help each and every member to have only one single thought when they are told something like this.  Told they can't do something, told they'll never succeed, told they are a second class teacher.  We want that one and only thought to be:

"Wanna bet?"

Happy New Years everyone!

Regards,

Mel, Paul and family.