Like any teacher should, I reflected on my past year, and realized that reading was one area of weakness. How can I be a strong English teacher if I don’t read and write on a frequent basis? How am I to inspire a love of reading into our students if I don’t mimic (and perhaps find) passion?

Developing as professionals is necessary, so I decided to commit to a goal of reading 40 bucks this year. There are strategies one can embed into their goal setting to set themselves up for success. Here’s some of the strategies we implemented:

Progress for goals must be tracked. Systems are in place. Inspiration to “Google Drive” or “Cloud” our reading progress is boiling.  Though I decided that using an excel spreadsheet to track books was unnesseary. Instead, I created a Trello card with a list of books. On the topic the Cloud, read how we made 1000 bucks from Microsoft’s developing Cloud.

Back on topic, my current reading list is below. It will be updated periodically and maintained on Trello:

Book selection varies, it is not based on what I enjoy reading, but rather, it is a list recommended by friends. I strongly believe there is value in forcing yourself to read works that you do not enjoy. .

Esepranza’s Rising will be tough to get through. Another hard book for us was Walk Two Moons, what a slug!

There you have it, readers. Thanks for getting this far in our article detailing our goals for 2018. Writing will become habitualized. And in order to improve on a habit, I will read vicariously.