The beginning of our TLLP journey

When our team was first introduced to this project, we had no idea what we were signing up for ;) We knew what goals and expectations we wanted to attain for our school community, but we didn't know all the details. When we first applied, we added as many expectations and goals that we could in order to be accepted, but we soon realized the magnitude of this project would also be professionally challenging, in a good way.
Luckily our team is an amazing one and we all put forth 100% effort. The beginning has been difficult because we have been grappling with the idea of a main focus for our project. This has been our first major challenge even though we hadn't even started the 2017-18 school year. Katie Brown and I (Yolanta) participated in the TLLP conference in Toronto where we received a thorough understand of what TLLP entailed. After this experience, Katie and I knew that our project was much more than what we had expected. Even if this was going to be a HUGE undertaking, we knew our team could take this on! What we didn't realize was how this project was not only going to benefit our school community but was going to be a professional journey and taking on a lead role in our own learning.
Here is a video from our first meeting (June 2017) where we captured how we felt before embarking on our journey together:

take 1: thoughts before we dive into #SEASTLLP project. #TLLP2017 @juliefortier6 @NadiaVincelli @MsBrownGr3 @lauramcress @JulianaLacelle pic.twitter.com/O7wUKnVeiG

— Yolanta Krawiecki (@YKrawiecki) June 22, 2017

It was during this first meeting that Katie and I had introduced our project's infographic. We wanted a visual that best represented the goals of our project, but we were not completely satisfied with the result. Ever since our project was accepted, we have been having trouble narrowing our focus and goals of the project. This is our initial infographic explaining our main goals.

~Yolanta
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