The Process

30/100 The Process
Last year I heard a Children’s book author speak about her work, she mostly shared about the process she went through in her writing. The most memorable part for me and the students I was teaching at the time was when she showed a giant stack of papers and told us these were all the drafts she had gone through to write this children’s book. I was impressed but the kids really couldn’t get over how much work had gone into what seemed to them to be a relatively short book. As I have worked through this project I have thought about this a lot. I think in tasks were there is an outcome that is shared it is easy to overlook the process. And really the process is probably often more important then the outcome. For me in creating this project the process has been a spiral of learning, listening, thinking, making and repeating. But it has also been important for me in this project to be super thoughtful about my process because I think that is what has allowed my Executive Function Skills to complete the task that is this project. Even a project about Executive Function skills needs Executive Function skills to happen. #100daysofefportraits #efportraits