"We're skyrocketing forward into an educational landscape that is changing every day. In these exciting times, we must be ready to take on the challenge of redefining greatness for a whole new generation of teachers and students." (Burgess, 2012, Location 1797 )
In "Building a Better Pirate," Dave talks about striving to greatness. We need to keep moving forward and take those leaps of faith. We need to find a "crew" to collaborate with- those that will stretch us and challenge us to continue growing for our students.
We need to continuously commit to teaching with passion, to immerse ourselves into the work, to build rapport, to ask ourselves the questions that will strengthen our practice, to reflect and analyze, to transform our lessons, and to be enthusiastic about teaching and our profession.
That is how we Teach Like PIRATEs.