Personal Learning Communities, School-wide Communities of Practice, Professional Learning Communities, these are all concepts I’ve been tossing around in my head lately. We are attempting to begin our own PLC here, meeting during lunch on Thursdays and Fridays.The benefits are tremendous. And, if we use the tools available, we expand our school PLC to a…
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Time to talk
Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t.Because we are so limited by time constraints at my school, I decided to invite teachers to "conversations" every Thursday and Friday during lunch.I envisioned a time to discuss broad topics such as: how do we learn? what role does technology play? what can we do to prepare our…
I need to practice
Last night we had Anastasia Goodstein, author of Totally Wired, What Your Teens and Tweens are Really Doing Online, speak at our school. Her message was right on target, and we loved hearing her validate what we have been saying to our parents and teachers. However, it was raining–for the first time in what, months?…
His words, not mine
Somehow David Warlick always manages to say what is in my brain. Before I can even begin to articulate it, he’s blogging about it. So, I think that if we can simplify the question of staff development by saying that, “It’s part of the job of the teacher to continue to grow,” then we can…
Watching Together, Learning Together
After reading Kim’s blog about watching the K12 Online presentations with her colleagues, I was inspired. I want to talk about the ideas, roll them around in my head, hear what others have to say. How about it? After school? During lunch? I’ll bring snacks:)Let’s begin here:More than cool tools K12-Online Have you heard this?Deschool,…