Getting To Know Us
Who's who at Powerful Learning Practice
Powerful Learning Practice has worked with over 4,000 educators, administrators, speakers, educational thought leaders, teacher leaders, and more over the past 5 years we've been in business. We get to network with some pretty amazing and noteworthy people along the way. We'd like you to meet some of them. Check out the profiles below.
Meet our team: Brenda Sherry
Powerful Learning Practice has expanded its staff 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 Brenda Sherry, Powerful Learning Practice Community Leader in the Canadian Community and a Connected Coach Hello, I’m Brenda Sherry and I was born in Toronto, Ontario but have been living just west of there in a great city...
read moreMeet our team: Grace Beach
Powerful Learning Practice has expanded its staff 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 Grace Beach, Powerful Learning Practice Program Administrator I am Grace Beach and I am 23 years old. I was born in Valdosta, GA and resided there until I was nine, but have spent the majority of my life here in Virginia Beach, VA....
read moreMeet our team: Christen Dodd
Powerful Learning Practice has expanded its staff 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 Christen Dodd, Powerful Learning Practice eLearning Director Hi, my name is Christen Dodd and I was born and raised in upstate New York. I currently reside in Virginia Beach, VA where I have spent the majority of my life. I...
read moreHeather Wolpert-Gawron on Her Lively New PLP E-course: Project-Based Writing
Next month Heather Wolpert-Gawron will be leading a lively new e-course from Powerful Learning Practice, aimed at engaging your new millennial students around a teaching stategy she calls Project-Based Writing. In the interview below, Heather explains just what she means by Project-Based Writing and why you’re likely to find it as exciting as she and her students do. (The course begins February 6. You can register here.) Heather is an award-winning middle school teacher in San Gabriel, California and the author of the popular education...
read moreMeet our team: Larry Kahn
Powerful Learning Practice has expanded its staff 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 Larry Kahn, Community Leader for Powerful Learning Practice I was born in Washington, D.C. and spent most of my life living within a 60 mile radius of that city. I am now in my seventh year in Houston, TX. I have come to really...
read moreMeet our team: Peter Skillen
Our communities aren’t the only ones who have exciting things happening. Powerful Learning Practice has expanded its staff 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 Peter Skillen, Community Leader for Powerful Learning Practice Tell us a bit about yourself – who are you, where are you from, what are your...
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 moreMeet our team: Lani Ritter Hall
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 Lani Ritter Hall, Team Leader for Powerful...
read moreMeet our team: Michelle Rogerson
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 Michelle Rogerson, Social Networking...
read moreObviously Important, Obviously ‘Ah-ha’
Sometimes the “ah-ha” moment for Powerful Learning Practice team members comes at the same time. For one of the Eastern Lebanon School District team, headed by Judy Uhrich, the moment came when they discussed how useless the old newsletter model was for communication. “The tech coordinator who was also the Fellow of the team said, ‘There’s got to be a better way,’ said Judy, who has served as the Technology and Learning Coordinator for 18 years. “We all looked at each other and said, ‘We know what we’re doing for our Action...
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