Tag Professional Learning
Yes. Professional Learning is not as fresh as you suspect. Let’s get that out-of-the-way immediately. It is normal to calculate a presentation, class, or training will be re-run. In fact, we count on it. We need an authentic run-through to… Continue Reading →
What are your Educational Non-Negotiables? I use the term “non-negotiables” often on this blog: The good news is I am not your Union Representative I am a fellow educator. But I think it would do us both good to identify… Continue Reading →
I reread (2005, 2017) this book with advance knowledge of the cringe worthy, sideways glance at every teacher’s first years. I read it knowing that one of my favorite, but most embarrassing, quote at the end of the book hit… Continue Reading →
This post is a part of #blogamonth monthly blog challenge. The 2017-18 school year has begun for me and for others it is fast approaching. Join this “edu-couragement” community for monthly reflecting and commenting led by @UGAFrank. But for now,… Continue Reading →
Many educational technologies include features with the benefit of making teaching and learning more transparent. For many transparency is a benefit; transparency creates more accountability between stakeholders and equalizes the playing field of education for those who traditionally may not succeed. What… Continue Reading →
This post is prompt 25 of the #EdublogsClub – a group of educators and edtech enthusiasts that blog around a common theme each week. All conferences can be Professional Learning, but not all Professional Learning happens at conferences. I want… Continue Reading →
With the proliferation of #edtech products comes an unexpected squeeze, not on your wallet as much as on your schedule. You may want to consider the full cost of #edtech to your school or district at purchase or renewal. That… Continue Reading →
I hosted my first EdCamp last Saturday with some colleagues. It was outside my safety net of a district professional learning day. It was smaller. It was less structured. And it was incredible. By the end I was proud that… Continue Reading →
My classroom was like an old western movie. I often thought of myself as a “white hat” and there were times when I certainly went “cowboy” after some new technology, literature set, you name it I probably started a shoot-out over… Continue Reading →
The idea of a Professional Learning Community, a PLC, is awesome. I want to sit with other professionals and participate in critical conversations around student work, achievement, and my personal practice. But that doesn’t always happen. Maybe people are particularly open… Continue Reading →
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