What We're Doing

Action research is a process in which Powerful Learning Team members collaboratively examine their own educational practice systematically and carefully. 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

We’ve got a showcase of Action Research projects from schools who have participated in the Powerful Learning Practice experience.

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The Critical Friends process focuses on developing collegial relationships, encouraging reflective practice, and rethinking leadership. It addresses a situation in which many leaders find themselves – they feel that they are simply supervisors in the leadership role. Through the Critical Friends process, trust is developed and hard conversations are had. This results in a meaningful shift in leadership and teaching practices for all involved.

Community members create lesson plans, record videos of their lessons using Flip cameras provided by Powerful Learning Practice, and their Community peers provide useful and respectful feedback. Videos coming soon.

Powerful Learning Practice supports its Communities with live events featuring experts, practitioners, and educational thought leaders from around the world. We are offering these challenging, action-packed sessions to extend learning opportunities beyond our Communities to the rest of the globe. Get free 21st Century Curriculum

TPACK Fridays are a cross-Community event: A series of action packed sessions that unpack secondary and elementary lesson plans that use TPACK strategies. They provide a chance for all PLP Community members to come together in interactive, lively sessions that highlight best practice in today’s classroom. See the archives

Powerful Learning Practice is sponsoring a new cross-community event that will make its archives open to the public – Pecha Kucha nights!Pecha Kucha is a new global presentation phenomenon, which originated in Japan sometime during 2003. It’s a new and wonderfully creative and unconventional way to do Power Point presentations. The rules are very simple: You must use 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds, as you tell your story in sync with the visuals. When you’re done – you’re done. See the schedule

The Challenge: Design a plan to save the world from an imminent collision with the Doomsday-1 Asteroid and prepare a video presentation for the President highlighting the merits of your plan. A successful plan will make a great case for its’ chance of success in the allotted time before impact and will be rooted in research and logic. The students’ math and science must make sense and they must consult with an outside expert who will help guide them in their designs and recommend their plan to the President. All members of the group are responsible for a working knowledge of the entire plan. Photos and videos will be shared. Read more about the Doomsday-1 Mission