Teachers' Letters to Obama Online Tonight
An update from Nancy Flanagan, PLP Community Leader and one of the organizers of Facebook’s Teachers’ Letters to Obama: Here is your link to the virtual Roundtable, TONIGHT, hosted by Teachers’ Letters to Obama (TLO). We are looking forward to a great dialogue and hearing from some wonderful teacher guests, discussing their experiences with public schools that work with our poorest children: Chuck Olynyk (whose school in Los Angeles was reconstituted); a group of teachers from Detroit Public Schools who were...
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By Susan Carter Morgan PLP Boot Camp will be traveling this fall—all the way to Norway. Ann Michaelsen, a teacher who has been providing new opportunities to learn for her own teachers, has now also arranged the November 17 Boot Camp for administrators in Norway and Sweden. “We’ve all been using technology for a long time,” she said. “But we hope this Boot Camp will give people a reason to think about what they are doing and why.” Teachers in Norway are conservative in teaching and learning, she said. However, the curriculum is not...
read moreA Fresh Start
By Doug Peterson Fellow, Ontario Cohort 2009 One of the true benefits of a job in education is that you get a chance to reinvent yourself every school year. There are a lot of careers that you might have chosen otherwise that just don’t give you that luxury. Things may change in terms of products that you build, tools that you use, projects that you’re involved with, etc., but it’s only in education that you get a fresh batch of faces and an opportunity for a total refresh every year. It’s not just K-12, higher education gets that...
read moreTalking About Success
By SCM I ran across this TED video recently on Richard St. John‘s view of success. It’s short and to the point. What else would you...
read moreHow Do You Measure the Effectiveness of Professional Development?
By: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Dean Shareski is a community leader with PLP. He asks some interesting questions in his building of community within our cohorts. He does the same on his own blog. Today he asked: In the effort to be fiscally responsible and focus our attention on what truly matters, we hear this question asked almost everyday as we make choices on how to support our school division: “Will it improve student learning?” That’s a simple and yet very complicated question. It’s pretty easy to suggest that almost...
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