An image keeps coming to mind this week.  I’m sure everyone has seen a nature show about sled dogs in the frozen North.  Before they’re harnessed they’re excited and jumping around in all different directions.  Yet when they get hitched they all come together for the single purpose of going somewhere. (Imagine a cool image of sled dogs on the page – technology challenges abound!)  I feel like that sort of proto-organization has begun to happen in the Salmonella Fellas.  We have had some great conversations about how to wrap our heads around a curriculum that draws on so many resources and has to satisfy the layers of requirements that are applicable.  However, the analogy breaks down when you consider the hierarchy that exists in a dogsled group – re-read The Call of the Wild for a refresher! We, on the other hand, seem to be finding a great deal of mutual support and recognition of each others’ strengths.  We’ve got a better-defined goal in mind and now there’s the beginning of a framework that we can work with.  It’s a cool professional conversation to be having.