A PLPeep’s reflection from the Australia community
As the Australian Community meets for their culminating session, community member Margo Edgar of Pascoe Vale Primary School shares with us her reflection on the PLP experience: I can remember attending the first F2F (face-to-face) day and being somewhat daunted by the faces in the crowd. Educators I had admired from afar through my slowly developing Personal Learning Network (PLN). The fact that my reason for taking on the challenge of PLP was because I wanted to ‘go global’, only added to my fear. These were educators that had...
read morePLP’s Australia Community Gears Up for Culminating with Incredible Projects
Sometimes it’s the unexpected learning that surprises and captures us. For many teachers in the PLP Victoria, Australian community, the journey through PLPConnectU and their project-based learning showed them how powerful collaboration can be. The teams will be attending their culminating on November 29. Led by Sheryl Nussbaum Beach and Alan Levine, known as CogDog to many of us, the #plpconnectu teams will present their final work and hear from Alan about story-telling. The groups have been collaborating on a range of topics from...
read moreMeet our team: Susan Lucille Davis
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 fascinating new minds (and fresh ideas) to our team. We’d like to introduce our team 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 thinking and who they are. Meet Susan Lucille Davis, Community Leader for...
read moreFantastic kickoffs, PLPeeps!
PLP leaders Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson couldn’t be more excited after rolling out eight successful face-to-face kickoff events for PLP Communities and launching our first PLP Virtual Academy. One thing’s for sure: We’ve brought together an energized group of educators ready to empower themselves and their students as connected 21st century learners. Read on! ADVIS/AIMS Community The ADVIS PLP Kickoff event took place September 20 at The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J., and The AIMS PLP Kickoff event...
read moreAnnouncing: 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 Communities Without further ado, we are proud to announce our Powerful Learning Communities for the 2011-12 school year! ADVIS & AIMS - This dynamic community is a combination of educators from Delaware Valley Independent schools and Maryland, DC, and Virginia independent schools. Canada & New England - Educators from all over...
read morePLP 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 to visit schools and work with teachers. In some cases, such as our Australia community, fall means bringing things to a close. For our year long communities, such as El Paso, it means a time to get started back, but for most of our communities it is a beginning–a kickoff. Kickoff The first of those kickoffs happened...
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