This is so true.  We as teachers need to be open to learning new things every day.  I hear teachers complain and gripe about p.d. every year and most won’t attend any p.d. sessions that they don’t get paid for.  We teach our students that they need to be lifelong learners, but then we don’t follow this practice ourselves.  Can you imagine what a difference it would make if all teachers read journals related to their teaching areas?  If all teachers collaborated together and shared ideas and tips with each others?  If all teachers attended p.d. whenever they wanted to learn something new, regardless of whether they were being paid for it or not.  If all teachers subsribed to RSS feeds to websites that were related to education. If all teachers reflected on their day; their successes and failures in a blog? What a difference it would make in our own lives…….