Winding down–
In our walled garden PLP virtual learning community– Scanning through the “latest activity” when this caught my attention– Amy Musone, a year 1 team leader in the IU 13 community from the Central York District, PA, encouraged her team members to reflect with her as they wind down this year of Powerful Learning Practice professional learning. The team had been immersed in an action research project, examining how their teaching would be transformed as they engaged in PBL in order to promote 21st century learning. Our...
read moreElectronic portfolios for students: Fredericksburg Academy’s action research gives students a voice
The crown jewel 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 is data-driven,...
read moreArchdiocese of Philadelphia educators + Virtual Academies = Collegial Learning
What happens when a community leader for Powerful Learning Practice from NE Ohio and educators from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia come together in virtual sessions with presenters from Kansas, Quebec, Iowa, Illinois, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Manitoba, California, Ontario, New Jersey, Michigan, and Maine? Learning. More learning. And more learning. For 3 years now, here in NE Ohio on many Tuesday or Thursday afternoons and evenings, I’ve been facilitating sessions and monitoring chats with passionate educators from the...
read moreHarbingers of what is to come
It’s only March– It’s been unseasonably warm– The plants in the garden have peeked out from their winter rest exceptionally early. The daffies’ green leaves, the red nubs of the peonies, the green points of the Japanese Iris, the maple’s baby leaves, the buds on the weeping cherry hold a special promise for what is to come. These harbingers of spring and summer, in a climate of often difficult winters, lift the spirit and the hopes for better times — gardens full of color and trees leafed in green! So...
read moreVirtual Visit: What’s going on in our Canadian Community
The whole Canadian community is benefiting from the discussions that have been initiated by our members. Here’s a sampling! Trading Post Alan Fletcher’s ‘Connecting Students’ discussion led to a new space called PLP Trading Post where teachers can share connections they’d like to make with other teachers about classroom or personal ventures – check it out! Gathering and Validating Tony Hardy initiated a discussion that concerns us all – ‘Gathering and Validating Information’. He suggests, “If not careful,...
read moreVirtual Visit: Inside our Year 2 Passion-Based Learning Community
We wanted to share with you a snippet from this rich conversation between two of our Year 2 Passion-Based Learning (PBL) Community members as they get to know each other in the teams where they will be designing a PBL unit. Cori, Love the focus you want to put on students developing their own projects. Am I right to understand that some of your goals are: student engagement, motivation, ownership of learning, project planning, design, and execution? Whenever I provide this type of freedom to my students (same age) I always find...
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