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What Success Really Looks Like

Bright spots and blots define a career trajectory

By Learning Forward
Categories: Career pathways, Leadership
October 2015
The image of success not being a straight, upward arrow but a big, messy scribbled blob defines my career trajectory perfectly. My work has moved forward, pushed upward, and stretched further, but it hasn’t been a smooth and easy path. For nine years, I was a high school English teacher. Then Macbeth died in the last act every hour on the hour, and I needed to move on. I became a new teacher coach and a professional learning facilitator in one school district for 16 years, where I eventually found my consulting voice and moved from professional learning facilitator to author, consultant, and speaker. In this last incarnation, I have reflected on the doodle blob of career growth and new adventures and found there are

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Jennifer Abrams

Jennifer Abrams (jennifer@jenniferabrams.com) is an education and communications consultant. She is the author of Having Hard Conversations (Corwin Press, 2009), Having Hard Conversations 2.0: Extending the Learning (Corwin Press, in press), and co-author with Valerie von Frank of The Multigenerational Workplace: Communicate, Collaborate, & Create Community (Corwin Press, 2014).

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Learning Forward is the only professional association devoted exclusively to those who work in educator professional development. We help our members plan, implement, and measure high-quality professional learning so they can achieve success with their systems, schools, and students.

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