I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
While looking for a quote to sum up how I feel about my attempt at implementing the 20% project into my regularly scheduled class time, I stumbled upon this:
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I hope that Mark Wagner has changed the way that my classroom views school. At CUE 2012, I had the opportunity to attend his presentation about the Google 20% project, or 20% time. This was intriguing, but there was no way that I could do it in my classroom. With the students that I had and the standards that I had to cover as mandated by my school, district, county, and state, there was just no way. Those types of projects would have to wait until the summer or whenever the motivated students found time.
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