Powerful Learning Practice Blog
Teachers' Letters to Obama Online Tonight
An update from Nancy Flanagan, PLP Community Leader and one of the organizers of Facebook's Teachers' Letters to Obama: Here is your link to the virtual Roundtable, TONIGHT, hosted by Teachers' Letters to Obama (TLO). We are looking forward to a great dialogue and...
Boot Camp Goes Overseas
By Susan Carter Morgan PLP Boot Camp will be traveling this fall—all the way to Norway. Ann Michaelsen, a teacher who has been providing new opportunities to learn for her own teachers, has now also arranged the November 17 Boot Camp for administrators in Norway and...
A Fresh Start
By Doug Peterson Fellow, Ontario Cohort 2009 One of the true benefits of a job in education is that you get a chance to reinvent yourself every school year. There are a lot of careers that you might have chosen otherwise that just don't give you that luxury. Things...
Talking About Success
By SCM I ran across this TED video recently on Richard St. John's view of success. It's short and to the point. What else would you add?
How Do You Measure the Effectiveness of Professional Development?
By: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Dean Shareski is a community leader with PLP. He asks some interesting questions in his building of community within our cohorts. He does the same on his own blog. Today he asked: In the effort to be fiscally responsible and focus our...
Slight Shifts and Tweaks
By SCM Clarity often comes in moments when a word, an insight, or a thought connects with another and moves us to a new place. Things have been a little muddy for me lately. But conversations I had over the last two days with Sheryl and Amber, our new marketing guru,...
Punctuated Professional Development
By Tony Baldasaro Punctuated Equilibrium In 1972, paleontologists Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge developed the theory ofpunctuated equilibrium, which provided an alternative view of evolution. Unlike Darwin's theory of evolution, which requires millions of...
I Can't Change the World, But…..
Susan Carter Morgan I once told Sheryl Nussbaum Beach I didn't feel moved to change the world. We were chatting about all things education-and how some folks are comfortable presenting to large crowds (I'm not), and some feel compelled to change the world of schooling...
Accessing Your Ning
You may have noticed when you log onto ning.com, you no longer get a list of all the nings you belong to. Remember you can always access your ning with the direct URL. Or you can find a list of current nings on this page on the bottom left. Please let us know if you...
Forest Hills Celebrated for Project
By Susan Carter Morgan We've written about this team before. And now THE Journal has, too! PLPeep Cary Harrod, Instructional Technology specialist for the Forest Hills District in Cincinnati, was featured in a recent article in the magazine. Their BYOL (Bring Your...