Harbingers of what is to come
It’s only March– It’s been unseasonably warm– The plants in the garden have peeked out from their winter rest exceptionally early. The daffies’ green leaves, the red nubs of the peonies, the green points of the Japanese Iris, the maple’s baby leaves, the buds on the weeping cherry hold a special promise for what is to come. These harbingers of spring and summer, in a climate of often difficult winters, lift the spirit and the hopes for better times — gardens full of color and trees leafed in green! So...
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 moreA “buzz” in the room
By Lani Ritter-Hall Administrative expectations, pacing charts — Students engaged in inquiry project based learning— PEARLS PLPers – cognizant of the tension of expectations and needs of their students– gather in their virtual learning community supporting, nudging each other—delving into the issue of “time” for project based learning—an issue raised in an Elluminate session by some community members to whom the concept of inquiry is new and for whom the pressures of “time” and/or expectations loom large– In...
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