Get Inspired

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...

Taking the Plunge

By Shelley Wright, Canadian PLP cohort Sunday evening I made an important, and now irrevocable, decision.  Even though I understand the importance of student-centred learning,  I haven’t switched to this approach in my Bio 30 class.  I keep thinking,...

Welcoming a New Face to PLP

We are so excited to welcome to our team, Kevin Honeycutt, an experienced teacher, artist, and tech integration specialist. Kevin will work with Sheryl as the Year Two Leader, guiding teachers through the process of defining and crafting their work. Kevin writes about...

Tough Being a Student

Early on, we ask our PLPers to remain students themselves–not to gravitate toward tools that might be useful in the classroom, but instead to participate fully in conversations and discussions, using tools to do so. It’s hard, as one teacher said in our...

What Do We Keep? What Do We Throw Away?

Cross-posted I’ve got a couple of keynotes coming up and submitted this as the title. I’m good at that; coming up with a title and then figuring out what to say. I realize that’s probably the worst way to develop something but that’s how I...