Nisse won a whole year of tech-savvy professional learning!
We’d like to send out a hearty congratulations to Nisse Welchman! Nisse is the lucky winner of one All Access Pass to our Connected Learner Experience for 2012-13. Nisse is a Spanish, PE, and Social Studies international school teacher at the American International School of Kingston, Jamaica. She’s also a football coach, student government advisor, and lover of learning, adventure, and new experiences. Part of Nisse’s teaching philosophy: “Ultimately I believe that the best way to learn is through experiences....
read moreSave $50 on eCourses for one week only!
Save big and transform your classroom or school Thanks for being a loyal follower of Powerful Learning Practice. We hope you enjoy this discount on our eCourses launching March 26th. Save $50 for one week only on these two powerful courses: 21st Century-ize Your Curriculum So you’re convinced that you need to shift your classroom practice to leverage Web 2.0 tools as a powerful learning strategy. But how do you actually do it? In the 21st Century-ize Your Curriculum eCourse, you’ll learn just that....
read moreJoin us for a #PLPNetwork Twitter chat with prizes!
Sunday, March 4th at 7pm EST, we’d like to invite you to join us for our very first #plpnetwork Twitter chat! What is a Twitter chat? A Twitter chat is a lot like any other online chat, where people gather to talk about a specific issue. The great thing about a Twitter chat is it brings people together from all over world to a central area (Twitter) where they can interact in real time. To join a Twitter chat, you just need to know what hashtag is being used. A hashtag is simply a way to search topics on Twitter and is recognized as a...
read moreWrite for the Teach.com blog!
We’re grateful to the Teach.com website for highlighting PLP voices in their resourceful blog, where they provide useful information and ideas aimed at new and prospective teachers as well as veteran educators. We asked them to tell us more about the site and about how teachers can contribute to the Teach.com blog. 1. We’re curious about the origin and goals of Teach.com. Teach.com evolved out of the need to offer regionally specific information about teaching and teacher certification to students of the MAT@USC program...
read moreConnected 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...
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