Creating a Classroom

How to begin planing a classroom when there seems to be no creative limitations and an immense amount of support from the administration.  Not only am I creating a new program, a new way of parent-teacher-student interaction, a model digital classroom, I also have the amazing opportunity to rethink what a classroom can look like.  As a new graduate from college both the possibilities and challenges seem exciting yet a bit daunting.

I have spent much of my college career talking and researching about how teachers make due and use the resources that are at their disposal.  Through work in schools that often didn't have an immense amount of resources at their disposal I have learned how to and the importance of adapting.  Yet as I begin on this journey to let my imagination free to re-invent and re-imagine what a classroom could look like, I have realized that sometimes "making due" with limited resources can in fact be easier than creating from scratch.  Now don't get me wrong I know how extremely lucky I am to have this opportunity.  This is every teacher's dream and to be given it  as a first year teacher is simply amazing.  But the big question is where to begin?

Where to begin... when you are not bond by the confines of desks filling your room?
Where to begin...when textbooks and children's stories are literally at your students finger tips?
Where to begin...when the school is not the sole domain of education but flows efficiently between home and school?
Where to begin... when parents become an active part in the classroom?

Those are the questions on my mind.  With seemingly limitless opportunities and a blank slate to re-envision the look of a classroom in this digital age I have a lot to think about and plan.  One thing I do know for sure, my classroom will not look like a "traditional" classroom. :-)