I just finished reading George Couros’ post The Fear of Sharing. It is a great article. I really wish I had a chance to work with George before I decided to leave the profession. He is a real leader in education and is always empowering and positive – that is where the real growth and learning takes place.
I am borrowing a visual from another positive educator Amber Teamann.
What would it be like to work with positive educators like this? I can only imagine.
Sharing makes us all better. Really liked Amber’s line: “If someone feels uncomfortable because you are doing good work, you are not the problem.”
I agree, but I can also remember being reprimanded for ‘sharing’ too much on my blog. Fortunately, this did not hold me back but pushed me to create more and be more critical of the people I worked for.
There is a certain amount of courage that comes with sharing – it is easy to be snubbed withing the small professional community you work in for really trying to connect with other educators. This does not bother me at all – I get so much more positive feedback from my PLN and the professional groups I work with outside the narrow group that used to employ me.
It is important to remember that sharing and creating and sometimes criticizing is what we should be doing. You will rarely be rewarded or recognized by your own district – to criticize is often seen as being negative, not being a member of the ‘team’. This doesn’t matter, if we are motivated by receiving the praise of others we will never get anything done.
Whole-Hearted 
My PLN are my people! I just said yesterday to a colleague, “I need to share what I’m doing, be recognized for it, but not in a braggy way, and I need to continue to learn and grow from others. If I can’t get that from people here, then I’ll keep looking on Twitter!” 🙂
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