Letting Go is Hard

by | Nov 30, 2010 | Change, PD

What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T.S. Elliot, Little Gidding As I sat in church Sunday, listening to the Homily on beginnings and endings and the coming of Advent, I thought, too,...

Get Inspired

by | Nov 26, 2010 | Change

How can we “do school” differently? Lyn HIlt, principal of of Brecknock Elementary School, located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and a member of IU13 cohort, shares her shift in thinking in this post on Connected Principals. Lyn pulls us into her...

Are We Preparing Our Students For This?

by | Oct 5, 2010 | Change

Resumes. We know what they are. Do we know what they could be? Mashable lists four ways to present yourself these days, including: The Video The Visual CV The Social Resume The LinkedIn Profile One commenter, who is sure to get a job soon, added his video resume in...

The Wrong Conversations

by | Sep 28, 2010 | Change

(Cross posted at Weblogg-ed) By all accounts, it’s been a crappy week for education. To be honest, I haven’t participated in much of it, but reading the accounts from Chris and Bud and others, and some of the Tweets from Sunday’s Education Nation...

A Day for Social Good

by | Sep 20, 2010 | Change

Social Media for Social Good. We’ve seen social media effect change in our classrooms and our students. But this is an opportunity to think about social media on a larger scale. We have the power to do more. So, PLP is joining Mashable in participating in Social...