Australian Virtual Learning Showcase – Day 4

By Mary Worrell
Welcome to the fourth day of our Australian Virtual Learning Showcase. Earlier this week we hosted a PLPLive event where visitors could speak with PLP’s Australian International Cohort teams and ask questions about the projects they’ve developed and started implementing over the last year. You can check out an archive of the session [...]

Australian Virtual Learning Showcase – Day 3

By Mary Worrell
We had a wonderful PLPLive Event where several of the Australian PLP Teams from the International Cohort shared details about their projects. You can check out the archive here.
Welcome to the third day of our virtual learning showcase where Australian teams from the PLP International Cohort are getting the chance to present the [...]

Australian Virtual Learning Showcase – Day 2

By Mary Worrell
Welcome to the second day of our virtual learning showcase where Australian teams from the PLP International Cohort are getting the chance to present the projects they’ve spent the last few months developing. This week on the PLPNetwork blog, we are highlighting one or two teams and their projects daily, which includes interesting [...]

Australian Virtual Learning Showcase – Day 1

By Mary Worrell
Welcome to the first day of the Australian Virtual Learning Showcase.
The Australian International Cohort teams have been working on the finishing of their culminating projects . This week on the PLPNetwork blog, we are highlighting one or two teams and their projects daily, which includes interesting videos that we encourage you to watch. [...]

Australian Virtual Learning Showcase

Save the date!
The Australian teams of the PLP International Cohort will be presenting their culminating projects through the PLP Network blog. Each day during the week of July 27th through the 31st, we will be posting about a team’s project, including descriptions, informative links and artifacts, as well as a video.
We also hope you [...]

U.S. International Cohort teams reflect on the past year

By Mary Worrell
Members of the PLP International Cohort’s U.S. teams celebrated the end to their year-long experience together with a culminating event in Fredericksburg, VA earlier this month. Even though it was the U.S. teams celebrating and presenting their projects, teams from Australia and New Zealand attended the event via the PLPLive Ustream channel. It [...]

Coming Together

This is pulled from a blog post in the International cohort and posted here with permission.

Posted by Susan Carter Morgan on March 14, 2009 at 7:49pm

I remember Carey Pohanka’s face during the PLP face to face meeting back in September. Her expression said, “what have I gotten into??”
Though the day energized me, I sensed that [...]

PLP News from Down Under

By Mary Worrell
A lot of news has been coming out of Australia recently – not all of it good. Last month a brushfire ravaged the province of Victoria killing nearly 200 people.
For Powerful Learning Practice’s International Cohort, the pain of the event hit close to home with team members having family and students affected by [...]

When a community is in need

By Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
PLP is a community of educators and while most of the time the focus is education, we can’t help but get to know one another personally. In a family or community when some of us hurt we all hurt. When some of us succeed we all celebrate.
Many of those in our community from [...]

Managing change

By Mary Worrell
PLP team members and fellows learn new things everyday. It’s when they bring these experiences back to their home schools that the real progress begins.
Blogging in the classroom
Mandy Shulman, member of the Illinois-Ohio Cohort, has been utilizing the network she’s developed through her PLP experience to jump-start a blog for her second-grade class.
“Through [...]