Mark your calendars for June 9th at 8pm Eastern! PLP will host a Twitter chat on the Common Core! During this one hour chat discussion topics will include: How are the common core standards assessed at your school? How prepared do you feel to implement the Common Core? What kind of support has your school or district provided? What are some challenges you have faced as you have begun to integrate the Common Core? Do you feel you can...

Written by a team of 27 students at Norway’s Sandvika High School (Oslo, Norway), Connected Learners is a 220-page compendium of stories, advice and how-to articles designed to help high school teachers and their students around the globe shift from classrooms that are isolated and teacher-centered to digitally rich environments where learning is student-driven and constantly connected to the global internet.

Our May 16th webinar with PL Press author Kathy Cassidy was a sellout! Thanks to all the educators in the diverse international audience for the great questions and lively chat stream as Kathy talked about her blogging and digital portfolio strategies with primary-aged students. The 100 available seats in Blackboard Collaborate were quickly filled (and refilled each time someone dropped off or had to leave early). In the audience were teachers...

The school year is wrapping up soon. You may be thinking toward the summer, and other than soaking up the sun and getting some much needed vacation time, maybe you’re considering professional learning and how to advance your teaching practice for next year. At Powerful Learning Practice, we know professional development for teachers. Over 7,000 educators around the globe have changed their teaching practice through our approach. But...

Hundreds of educators have purchased Kathy Cassidy’s new interactive book Connected from the Start since its release April 10th. A dozen of those readers have posted 5-star reviews at our book site. We are so excited that the book has been met with such enthusiasm! To keep that momentum going, and to celebrate the Kathy’s book, we are hosting a free webinar and virtual Book Launch Party on Thursday, May 16th  at 7pm EDT. Join...

A connected coach uses techniques like appreciative inquiry, essential questions, and other cognitive coaching and deep thinking methods to help individuals and teams self-actualize in online spaces. Connected coaches are the social artists that help people think deeply about the learning that is taking place in the shared online environment.