Never still

By Lani Ritter-Hall
First the tide rushes in
Plants a kiss on the shore
Then rolls out to sea
And the sea is very still once more
Ebb Tide, The Righteous Brothers
With the ebb and the flow, ripples continue to grow as more members of the Illinois Ohio cohort engage in blogging in and out of the cohort space reflecting [...]

Spreading the Love

By Clarence Fisher
It takes time in the beginning to find your footing. No matter what you are learning, when we try something new, we are often unsure of ourselves and the skills and knowledge that we have. We can be learning to swim or learning a new language, at the beginning, we are all self [...]

When a community is in need

By Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
PLP is a community of educators and while most of the time the focus is education, we can’t help but get to know one another personally. In a family or community when some of us hurt we all hurt. When some of us succeed we all celebrate.
Many of those in our community from [...]

Managing change

By Mary Worrell
PLP team members and fellows learn new things everyday. It’s when they bring these experiences back to their home schools that the real progress begins.
Blogging in the classroom
Mandy Shulman, member of the Illinois-Ohio Cohort, has been utilizing the network she’s developed through her PLP experience to jump-start a blog for her second-grade class.
“Through [...]

Dispatches from the Front Lines…

This post from teacher in a community we’re working in is just too classic not to share:
Enjoy a laugh at my expense as I share recent highlights from my district’s firewall policies:
We use some sort of filter that counts how many pixels in a photo are flesh-colored. If the ratio is too high, the photo [...]