Connected Online Communities of Practice: PLPeeps represent!
The 2010 National Education Technology Plan demonstrates the importance of educators becoming more connected to resources, tools, colleagues, experts, and learning activities, both within and beyond schools. Participation in online communities of practice is a key way educators connect. Robust online participation contributes both to individual excellence and to the vitality of the profession as a whole. The Connected Online Communities of Practice project will steward a scalable, sustainable ecology of online communities in education to...
read morePB Writing: Teaching as We Learn Together
“This year I’ve decided to teach solely through a Project-Based Writing approach,” wrote Heather Wolpert-Gawron last September. “I’m defining PBW as a series of constructed units built around authentic assessment, authentic audience, and authentic learning that incorporates the multiple writing genres. It’s all about blurring the lines between school life and the real world.” That happened in a big way when her 8th graders were invited to present at the 100-Year Starship Symposium. The best part? “Finding out I don’t always have to be the expert; I can model learning as we explore this new content together.”
read moreMeet our team: Grace Beach
Powerful Learning Practice has expanded its staff and brought some fascinating new minds (and fresh ideas) to our team. We’d like to introduce our team to you, one by one, and so we’ve come up with seven questions for each of them so you can have a little peek into what they’re thinking and who they are. Meet Grace Beach, Powerful Learning Practice Program Administrator I am Grace Beach and I am 23 years old. I was born in Valdosta, GA and resided there until I was nine, but have spent the majority of my life here in Virginia Beach, VA....
read moreLead at the Edge: Will & Sheryl talk about their 21st century leadership e-course
If you’re a superintendent, a principal, or an educator in another key leadership role, you know that your students are using the Web, mobile technologies, and other tools to connect and create social networks. But do you also recognize their transformative potential for learning? In their five-week Leading Edge Boot Camp e-course, PLP co-founders Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson help education leaders not only understand how 21st Century technologies are challenging curriculum and pedagogy but how savvy leaders can use them...
read moreMeet our team: Christen Dodd
Powerful Learning Practice has expanded its staff and brought some fascinating new minds (and fresh ideas) to our team. We’d like to introduce our team to you, one by one, and so we’ve come up with seven questions for each of them so you can have a little peek into what they’re thinking and who they are. Meet Christen Dodd, Powerful Learning Practice eLearning Director Hi, my name is Christen Dodd and I was born and raised in upstate New York. I currently reside in Virginia Beach, VA where I have spent the majority of my life. I...
read moreSheryl Nussbaum-Beach: Learn to teach online and become a more connected & creative educator!
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach is co-founder and CEO of Powerful Learning Practice LLC. In more than a decade as an online educator, Sheryl has led over 2000 webinars and e-course sessions involving more than 10,000 adult learners. A former teacher of the year in the Virginia Beach VA public schools, Sheryl has also been a school and district technology coach, an independent school principal, and a university instructor. She is co-author of a new book. The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in the Digital Age (Solution Tree, 2012). In this...
read moreVirtual Visit: What’s going on in our Canadian Community
The whole Canadian community is benefiting from the discussions that have been initiated by our members. Here’s a sampling! Trading Post Alan Fletcher’s ‘Connecting Students’ discussion led to a new space called PLP Trading Post where teachers can share connections they’d like to make with other teachers about classroom or personal ventures – check it out! Gathering and Validating Tony Hardy initiated a discussion that concerns us all – ‘Gathering and Validating Information’. He suggests, “If not careful,...
read moreVirtual Visit: Inside our Year 2 Passion-Based Learning Community
We wanted to share with you a snippet from this rich conversation between two of our Year 2 Passion-Based Learning (PBL) Community members as they get to know each other in the teams where they will be designing a PBL unit. Cori, Love the focus you want to put on students developing their own projects. Am I right to understand that some of your goals are: student engagement, motivation, ownership of learning, project planning, design, and execution? Whenever I provide this type of freedom to my students (same age) I always find...
read moreTransform Your Teaching One Lesson at a Time, says Jennifer Bloomingdale
Feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the talk about shifting your teaching to include more technology and student choice? In her new Powerful Learning Practice e-course (5 weeks, beginning Feb. 6), iGeneration educator Jennifer Bloomingdale promises to help participating teachers achieve “Transformation, One Lesson at a Time.” Jennifer graduated from the College of St. Rose in 2006 with a Bachelors in Childhood Education. In 2011 she completed her Masters in Educational Technology and became a New York State certified Educational...
read morePower Up Student Learning with Web 2.0: Kevin Jarrett Talks about His PLP eCourse
Ready to leverage Web 2.0 tools as a powerful learning strategy? Already shifting your classroom practice but feel the need for more speed? Either way, you’re a prime candidate for PLP’s highly praised 21st Century-ize Your Curriculum e-course, offered twice this spring (5 weeks beginning February 6 or March 26) and led by one of the nation’s top classroom experts on shifted teaching and learning. In 2003, Kevin Jarrett left a first career as a corporate IT project manager & consultant to become the K-4 Technology...
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