Meet 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...
read morePowerful, modern, 21st Century action research
Throughout the year, our Powerful Learning Team members collaboratively examine their own educational practice systematically and carefully through a process called Action research. Action research is: Disciplined inquiry into a problem or possibility within the school or classroom Collaborative and usually takes place in a community of practice Meaningful, positive, and reflective Data-driven, action-based, improvement-focused Transformative Here are a few of the latest Action Research projects from schools who have participated in the...
read moreIn the Hive, Making Two Classes One
Talk about authentic learning. Canadian teachers Heather Durnin and Clarence Fisher and their 7th and 8th grade students just finished up an entire school year collaborating online. That in itself would have served as a terrific example of meaningful work, especially since they are 2700 kms (1677.702 miles) apart. But the culmination of the year proved to be, well, the icing on the cake. “It was such a big, big moment,” said Heather, remembering the interview with author Markus Zusak. It all started when Heather from Wingham, Ontario saw...
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