View from a Different Window

Have you ever thought about how the view looks different from each window in a home or building? There are no two views that are the same. I can't really say I've contemplated this before now.  It's exactly what I'm experiencing as I move from spending my days as a classroom teacher to working with students and teachers in a role that allows me to see the broader perspective - the bigger picture, so to speak.

I had become so accustomed to seeing my students, the curriculum, my colleagues, the educational system in general through the lens of my very limited, sometimes isolated classroom.  I don't think this is anything new.  It happens all the time in all professions.  We become so wrapped up in ourselves and our own world that we can't see past it.

Since moving to a more central/global role, I've learned so many things that I either one, didn't think about, two, didn't care about, or three, complained about. I have often said to colleagues and friends that as classroom teachers we often didn't see the big picture - the behind the scenes of everything that was going on. I might have said it, but I can't say that I always believed it or lived it.  This is still true for all of us. We only see what we can from the window we are given to view it from.

Although, I still don't see it all (nor do I want to), it's almost like I've moved from a porthole to a picture window.