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Affordable 21st century professional development for an entire school
Over the past five years, over 5,000 educators from saw transformative change in their classrooms through a year’s worth of ongoing, professional development presented by Powerful Learning Practice. We covered both big picture discussions and practical, make-and-take sessions about relevant issues like Common Core, 21st Century-izing curriculum using the TPACK model, making technology integration easy, digital citizenship, Web 2.0 tools, and more. For the 2012-13 school year, we are out to change your entire school, and...
read moreContinuing the Conversation about Self Promotion
Conversations from the Edge is a series of raw, honest and candid dialogues about education’s shifting learning landscape. Hosted by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Will Richardson and our Advisory Board.
read moreHow We’re Using Our Own Private Classroom-Focused Social Network
Edmodo is a social networking tool for schools. It is especially designed to be a safe, Facebook-style community where students can communicate and share. Unlike Facebook, Edmodo is highly secure. A teacher can set up a class and obtain a group code for students to use to join the private class group. I’ve been using Edmodo with my students for almost a year now and it has had a big impact on learning and collaboration.
read moreSummer e-Learning by the pool – mobile learning, apps, flipped classroom, connected coaching and more!
Summer learning – havin’ a blast! This summer, we’re kicking off a dozen eCourses from a group of seasoned, 21st Century educators. Our Powerful Learning eCourses are practical, affordable, and an easy way to get your professional development in from the comfort of your own home (or wherever your laptop and your imagination take you). These courses are filling up fast. Don’t miss out - here are our summer offerings: Flipped classroom approach Instead of learning...
read moreTelling Our Stories, Self-Promotion, or Sharing Best Practices?
Conversations from the Edge is a series of raw, honest and candid dialogues about education’s shifting learning landscape. Hosted by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Will Richardson and our Advisory Board.
read moreWhy I Love Project Based Learning
While some teachers may wonder about the merits of PBL, I’m sold. My high school students have learned much more in an inquiry classroom than others did when we had a traditional one. PBL allows them to have a say in what they learn and how they present their knowledge. Every semester I’m impressed by the hard work and energy my students pour into their projects. Here’s the story of our biology projects this year.
read moreMeet Our Advisory Board: Dr. Jackie Gerstein
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, and so we’ve come up with seven questions for each of them so you can have a little peek into what they’re...
read morePBL in Primary: Who Asks the Questions?
Because we are doing inquiry or PBL (passion-based learning) this year, my students have asked more questions than they ever have before in my classroom. Both the students and I are still learning about this process, but I like this shift. The person who asks the questions is in charge of the learning, and I want my grade one kids to be in charge of their own learning.
read moreConnected Coaching–Work in Progress & Reflections from the Trenches
Sarah Blattner is a Powerful Learning Practice Connected Coach who recently completed the Connected Coaching eCourse. She dove in feet first and found the more she learned, the more she wanted to learn. The more she learned, the more she realized what she didn’t know or had not mastered, and the how her journey will be lifelong.
read moreUnselfish Self Promotion
Conversations from the Edge is a series of raw, honest and candid dialogues about education’s shifting learning landscape. Hosted by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Will Richardson and our Advisory Board. The following was cross posted from 21st Century Collaborative.com This post has been percolating for awhile. I never wrote it because I felt I couldn’t do it justice. That the idea was too important to not express it clearly. Besides, who in their right mind would defend self promotion? But this morning, I decided to throw caution...
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