Take a Learning Posture
By Karl Fisch One of the interesting things about the PLP model is observing how the community builds itself. This is definitely not a linear process, and one of the things I have to constantly remind myself as a “Community Leader” is that different teams, and even different participants within those teams, will move forward at different (sometimes vastly different) rates. Ray Hawthorne, an Instructional Coach in my building, often says we need to “go slow to go fast,” and I think that’s a key part of the PLP Cohort model. From my...
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By Clarence Fisher First steps. That is the way to describe what has been happening in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia cohort. A large group of educators gathers in this ning and many of them have very little experience using technology in classrooms. This is one reason that the PLP model is so powerful, it gives people at all skill levels the opportunity to spend time exploring and learning at a reasonable pace and not just as a “one – off” type of inservice. In our ning we have seen voices emerge as leaders and people...
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By Lani Ritter Hall On the side, in the middle, questioning, nudging, modeling, holding back sitting on my hands –as the many voices of the members of the Illinois/Ohio cohort storm the NING in conversations related to 21st Century learning. Rich and thoughtful contributions have grown this community and its members’ learning in exciting ways . The many discussions, pensive and reflective, as well as light and spirited, led Darren Persino from Avoca School District 37, Wilmette IL to note: “Using this (PLP) NING over the last...
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