It's not rare for me to try new things, but I haven't done new things recently that I've been evaluated on. That changed with the series of four 90-minute online classes on “Building the Beloved Community” classes that I just finished teaching. I was solidly outside of my comfort zone throughout these four weeks. Not only is online teaching new to me, but I found it was a real challenge to “read the room” as I would if I were doing real teaching and to figure out how to make the activities interactive enough that people stayed engaged without making it feel scattered.
The experience reminded me of running, which is an activity that I know I don't excel at, but I put in hard work and feel proud of what I’m able to do in the end. These endeavors where I feel excited about improving and where I have to stretch to be “good enough” are great empathy building experiences!
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