Today is the beginning of the ninth year of our #G2Great chat launched 1/8/15 in honor of my book, Good to Great Teaching: Focusing on the Literacy Work that Matters (2012, Heinemann). We have celebrated eight years with 371 Twitter chats focused on books, topics, articles, and podcasts including weekly chats for the first seven years until 2023 year eight when we moved to monthly chats.
After contemplating the future of #G2Great with co-moderators, Fran McVeigh and Brent Gilson, we decided to make another shift in 2024. We did not take this decision lightly but due in part to participation and the dramatic and continuing changes in our social media platform from Twitter to X. We are still committed to the goal that inspired us to begin this journey in 2015 which is spreading information through conversation within a social media network, but we will do this using a more flexible process rather than a predetermined annual schedule.
Beginning on our 2024 year 9 anniversary, these changes will take place:
• we will continue to use #G2Great hashtag as a conversational sharing space
• we will offer chats as they speak to us rather than using a predefined schedule
• we will continue to house past and future chats in our Wakelet Collections
• we will maintain www.literacylenses.com as a blog for sharing
• We will consider options such as book reviews or interviews with authors.
Each of us feels blessed to have created and nurtured a space where we can all engage in respectful conversations around a wide variety of topics. But we also know that these are challenging times for educators in terms of the political mandates and rigid dictates for what you can and cannot do sweeping across the country. We continue to be dedicated to offering this space where we hope you will share your thinking and both initiate and engage in conversation. And as opportunities arise, engage in conversation with us as we have in the past.
We are grateful to each of you for your educational commitment and your willingness to share that commitment with us through social media-style dialogue. #G2Great was created in YOUR honor and has been a labor of love with YOU in mind across the years. We hope to see you again as the 2024 progresses.
With deep gratitude to each of you!
LOOKING BACK AT EIGHT YEARS OF ANNIVERSARY BLOG REFLECTIONS
Just as I’ve done over the last eight years, here are our past anniversary posts:
Year 1: 1/5/16 (Blog launch)
Year 2: 1/5/17 The Gifts of YOU
Year 3: 1/4/18 (Curiosity Crew collaboration #1)
Year 4: 1/10/19 (Curiosity Crew collaboration #2)
Year 5: 1/9/20 WHAT IF?
Year 6: 1/7/21 Courageous Conversations
Year 7: 1/13/22 Reclaiming a Seat at the Decision-Making Table
Year 8: 1/5/23 Professional Transformation
