Congratulations to all our PLP Friends on the EduBlog Awards shortlist!
The judging panel for the 2011 EduBlog Awards has posted its final nominees in this year’s contest — and it’s great to see so many PLP friends and colleagues on the lists. You can vote here for any or all of the 18 categories until 11:59 p.m., U.S. Eastern time, Tuesday, December 13. I’m particularly proud that our group blog Voices from the Learning Revolution, launched just nine months ago, made the shortlist for Best Group Blog. With curation and editorial support from PLP consultant John Norton, we’ve posted...
read moreAlan Levine in Australia & 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story
Alan Levine, one of our favorite world travelers, and a longtime online friend of mine, made a stop at my house in Virginia Beach, Virginia, a few months ago as one of his stops on his 2011 Odyssey road trip. We had a grand time while he visited – and I invited him to join Powerful Learning Practice for the culminating activity of the ConnectU Australia Community to present his keynote: 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story. The Australia Culminating event was awesome and packed with energy. I wanted to share some resources from...
read moreConnected Coaching in Connected Spaces: The Other New Leadership Skill
The back story The October 2011 edition of ASCD’s Educational Leadership recognizes coaching in education as “the new leadership skill” — and features more than a dozen articles by practitioners and leading experts, including Bob and Megan Tschannen-Moran, Jim Knight and Elizabeth City. All in all, it’s a great issue — a power-packed resource that addresses most any traditional coaching context you might imagine. Which may explain why the article I submitted with my writing colleague Lani Ritter-Hall was...
read morePLP Kicks Off Another Year of Communities
In education fall is an amazing time of year. Filled with crisp morning air, children’s laughter, increased workloads, and meetings. Here at Powerful Learning Practice it is no different and fall is when we get to visit schools and work with teachers. In some cases, such as our Australia community, fall means bringing things to a close. For our year long communities, such as El Paso, it means a time to get started back, but for most of our communities it is a beginning–a kickoff. Kickoff The first of those kickoffs happened...
read moreThe anatomy of a viral tweet and its implications for educators
Subtitle: What 15 minutes of fame looks like in the 21st Century Cross posted from 21st Century Collaborative NOTE: I plan to update or amend this post as new things happen. In what world do strawberry picking, crafting, the royal wedding and social media all have something in common? In Amber’s world. As some of you might know, my daughter Amber Karnes is a passionate crafter who also happens to be a web developer and marketing consultant. Like many of her contemporaries her passions are varied. A quick scan of her blog brings up...
read moreDream School
Conversations from the Edge is a series of raw, honest and candid dialogues about education’s shifting learning landscape. Hosted by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson. Dear Will, You know better than anyone that I am an optimist. I truly do see possibilities more than problems. Well, I woke up this morning feeling empty. I woke up grieving for children. I blame it on a dream I had. A dream about unhappy students, hundreds of them, shuffling through halls with broken spirits and sad faces. Students who were...
read moreDisconnect: Content, Context & Common Core
Conversations from the Edge is a series of raw, honest and candid dialogues about education’s shifting learning landscape. Hosted by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson. Dear Will, I have been thinking a lot about our conversation yesterday about standards, Common Core, and the dynamic tension education is experiencing between content and context. My perception is that Common Core has a narrow focus, which is good and in terms of framework to the curriculum – it works. However, my fear is that the Federal government...
read moreWelcome! You’re hearing Voices from the Learning Revolution
We’ve titled this group blog “Voices from the Learning Revolution” not because our bloggers are necessarily revolutionary leaders — but because they are leaving behind outdated practices and mindsets and shifting toward the kind of connected, digitally infused teaching and learning that we know our 21st century students need. We have some voices who are strong and well developed in their understanding; we have others who are just beginning their connected learning journey. And we’ll be inviting some guest writers to join us who most will agree are truly on the front lines of the learning revolution, leading the charge.
read moreCommunities are growing
It seems like just yesterday a new group of educators joined the Powerful Learning Practice family to begin a year-long, practice-changing journey in learning communities around the country. Those very same educators are now approaching the end of their first-year Community experience. They are developing Action Research Projects that they will scale within their schools to help bring their learning to fellow teachers – projects that will be presented at the fast-approaching culminating celebrations. We’re proud of our PLPeeps...
read moreOpen Letter to the PLP Staff
Cross posted at http://21stcenturycollaborative.com Dear Staff, I have been thinking of you today. Thinking about your various roles within Powerful Learning Practice. Thinking about how I can help you (us) be more passionate about what you (we) do and how I can provide vision, hope, trust and inspiration as the leader of our company. This is “our” company you know. This work “we” do– using community and networks as a way of enabling educators to share, inquire, build and innovate change. The kind of change that...
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