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Meet our team: Lani Ritter Hall

Meet our team: Lani Ritter Hall

It’s a brand new year at Powerful Learning Practice, and our Communities aren’t the only ones who have exciting things happening. Powerful Learning Practice has expanded its staff (and we’re still hiring!) and brought some

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Our coolest PLPeep, the PLP Penguin!

Our coolest PLPeep, the PLP Penguin!

Your votes are in, and we’ve got a new, adorable PLP mascot. The PLP Penguin! This little guy will be chill’n with PLPeeps in every community. Be prepared for penguin sightings as he travels the

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Connected Coaching in Connected Spaces: The Other New Leadership Skill

Connected Coaching in Connected Spaces: The Other New Leadership Skill

Read the article “Connected Coaches in Connected Spaces,” which Lani Ritter-Hall and I submitted for this month’s Educational Leadership theme issue, “Coaching: the New Leadership Skill.” All in all, it’s a great EL edition — a power-packed resource that addresses most any traditional coaching context you might imagine. Which may explain why our piece was returned with a gracious “no thanks.” It’s a little edgy, we acknowledge, but it’s based on solid scholarship and countless hours we’ve spent learning and leading in virtual professional communities.

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Meet our team: John Norton

Meet our team: John Norton

It’s a brand new year at Powerful Learning Practice, and our Communities aren’t the only ones who have exciting things happening. Powerful Learning Practice has expanded its staff (and we’re still hiring!) and brought some

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Meet our team: Michelle Rogerson

Meet our team: Michelle Rogerson

It’s a brand new year at Powerful Learning Practice, and our Communities aren’t the only ones who have exciting things happening. Powerful Learning Practice has expanded its staff (and we’re still hiring!) and brought some

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Announcing: Our 2011-12 Communities!

Announcing: Our 2011-12 Communities!

By now you’re back to school and probably busier than ever. Things are happening at a frenetic pace over at PLP as well, and we’re excited to share the contagious energy with you! Meet our

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Just for fun: A PLP mascot

Just for fun: A PLP mascot

We need your help! We have some fun plans for an official PLP mascot, and we’d like you to vote on what animal it should be! Fill out this survey to let us know what

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PLP Kicks Off Another Year of Communities

PLP 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

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Work for us: be a Connected Coach

Work for us: be a Connected Coach

At Powerful Learning Practice, our focus is on learning first and using emerging technologies to make that happen. But many teachers simply don’t understand how to create and sustain blended classroom instruction. Our connected coaches

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New Teachers: The Joys & Challenges of 21st Century Learning

New Teachers: The Joys & Challenges of 21st Century Learning

Is your school not a friendly place for 21st century learning? Don’t lose hope. Stand by your beliefs and remember that it is all about your students. Igniting their passions and teaching them to become connected learners is a gift that will serve them well, no matter what the future brings. Keep finding ways to let students drive their own learning through inquiry and problem solving. Their energy and enthusiasm is contagious, and you will be there to show them that the learning opportunities are limitless.

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