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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.
Six Interviews: Powerful Conversations with PLP Leader Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
My friend and collaborator Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach is eminently interviewable. Whether she’s talking about passion-based teaching and learning, the secrets of successful online communities of practice, or her ideas about integrating new technologies and social media into everyday teacher and student life, her transformative vision comes through and what she has to say always has valuable take-aways for listeners. Wearing my hat as the Coordinator of Content & Capacity Building at Powerful Learning Practice, I thought it would be both...
read moreSharing What We Know about Online Communities of Practice
The Connected Online Communities of Practice project is all about increasing the quality, accessibility, and connectedness of existing and emerging online communities of practice in education. Supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the work is being carried out by a project team drawn from a six-organization partnership that’s led by the American Institutes for Research. One project focus (see more here) is to “undertake case studies of both interesting communities of practice and of individual...
read moreMeet Our Team: Lyn Hilt
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 Lyn Hilt, Powerful Learning Practice Community Leader, Team Leader, Connected Coach and Blogger. My name is Lyn Hilt. I am an elementary principal and K-6 technology integrator/coach in Lancaster County, PA. I am privileged to...
read moreMeet our team: Nancy Caramanico
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 Nancy Caramanico, Powerful Learning Practice Community Leader, Connected Coach and eCourse Instructor Hello, I’m Nancy Caramanico and I live just outside of Philadelphia. I have lived in this area all of my life. I have a...
read moreMeet 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...
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