Teachers: Let Your Voices Be Heard

By Susan Carter Morgan Anthony Cody, administrator for Teachers’ Letters to Obama (along with our own PLP Community Leader Nancy Flanagan) sent out this update for members of the website. As we are partnering with that organization, we wanted to reprint some of...

Only 20 slots left

Anthony Cody, administrator for Facebook’s Teachers’ Letters to Obama, has announced that there are only 20 slots left for the Elluminate Teach-in on Monday night. Be sure to sign up here, or get more information here! Here is part of his announcement: We...

A Win-Win Partnership

Are you eager to see substantive change not only in your classroom but in classrooms everywhere ? Do national policies focused on testing, ranking, and sorting cause you to throw up your arms in frustration? As we posted last week, NBCT teachers Nancy Flanagan and...

Creating a Movement

By John Pederson I recently had the pleasure of experiencing the culminating celebration of our TriState PLP group.  It was truly awesome to be present at the end and get a feel for the people and stories behind some awesome projects that developed over this past...

Educator as Change Agent

By: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach- (repost from the PLP Year 2 Community) A change agent, or agent of change, is someone who intentionally or indirectly causes or accelerates social, cultural, or behavioral change. As the time to end another year with PLP comes to a close I...

Connected Teaching

By Will Richardson To me, at least, one of the most interesting phrases used in the new National Educational Technology Plan was this: “…using technology to help build the capacity of educators by enabling a shift to a model of connected teaching.”...