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Escape to Summer Reading
Fourth grade teacher Patti Grayson has some major issues with summer reading in the elementary grades. What is the point of assigning students specific books to read? Summer is for building lemonade stands and chasing fireflies. Let kids pick books they like and write to you about why they liked them.
read moreUsing ePortfolios for students – an action research project from the Agnes Irwin School
The ultimate accomplishment of our year-long, job-embedded professional learning journey, The Connected Learner Experience, is the action research project that each team completes and presents at our year-end culminating celebration. Action research is a process in which our educators collaboratively examine their own educational practice systematically and carefully. They work together to identify a problem within their school or community, and then collaboratively to solve it. Action research is meaningful, positive, and reflective. It...
read moreGoing to ISTE? Spend an hour with us and get a free t-shirt!
Are you a PLPeep that is going to ISTE? Volunteer for one hour at Powerful Learning Practice’s booth #2044 and get a free t-shirt! Volunteer for two or more hours and get an extra gift!
read moreGet your free 13-page Twitter Guide for Teachers
We’ve created the Twitter Handbook for Teachers, a brand new, interactive, 13-page guide to Twitter. This guide is for educators who are new to Twitter, or veterans to the social media platform who want to bring Twitter into their classrooms or grow their network. Is that you? Sign up to get your free instant download! What’s inside? Our brand new guide is chock-full of tips and resources on how to use Twitter to build your network, leverage those connections, and use Twitter in your classroom. Here’s a peek at what’s...
read moreThe Flipped Classroom: Dr. Jackie Gerstein Talks about her new PLP eCourses
This summer, Dr. Jackie Gerstein will introduce two new courses to Powerful Learning Practice’s eCourse lineup. Both courses will introduce and expand educators’ knowledge on the flipped classroom. In this interview, Jackie describes the value of both her five-week (Engage with The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture) and ten-week courses (The Complete Guide for Implementing The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture).
read moreGood Classroom Tech Is Like a Sweet Old Softball Glove
Done well, social media and technology integrated into the classroom feels like a familiar old leather softball glove. It becomes an extension of your hand and you almost forget that it’s there. Done badly, it’s a waste of time and the return on your investment is nil.
read moreMeet Our Advisory Board: Claudia L’Amoreaux
As our Powerful Learning Practice Network grows, we are doing some amazing things with communities of practice, e-learning, raising the voices of forward-looking practitioners, and more. With these and other PLP initiatives underway, we felt it was time to establish an advisory board to help us keep our work out on the edge of professional learning in the 21st century. We’d like to introduce our advisory board to you, one by one. In this interview we’ll be talking to Claudia L’Amoreaux.
read moreWe’re saying YES and extending early bird pricing on our Connected Learner Experience!
By overwhelming popular demand, we’re giving you some extra time. We are extending early bird prices on our groundbreaking professional learning journey, The Connected Learner Experience through July 15th. We want to learn with you next year, so we’re saying YES. We’re giving you some extra weeks to get your Title II funding together, get approval from your administrators, or just to make up your mind about our Connected Learner Experience. It’s a year’s worth of job-embedded professional...
read moreEncouraging Teachers to Teach Creativity
As the person most directly responsible for our school’s professional learning, I have been wondering what professional development looks like when you turn Bloom’s on its head and ask teachers to encourage students’ creative thinking early in the learning process. Teachers need to model their own creative thinking and embrace “messy” assessments.
read moreBecky Bair is coaching students to take charge of their learning
PLP eCourses attract participants from across the globe to learn and grow with one another. Over the next few weeks, we will feature interviews with current and past PLP eCourse participants. We’ll ask participants to share information about themselves, why they chose PLP eCourses and what they are up to professionally. In this interview we asked Becky Bair to share her experiences with the Connected Coaching eCourse.
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