A while ago I created a post in response to recurring themes I was seeing in many blogs around creating change in our schools towards authentic, meaningful learning situations for our students and teachers.
Here is that post.
Today I finally got around to creating a wiki to continue the conversation (thanks to John Brandt for the [...]
Since yesterday, I have been involved in a conversation on Will Richardson’s post The Future of Teaching.
The first part of this post was originally posted as a comment to The Future of Teaching.
I am getting the idea that we, at least those of us involved in this conversation, are ready to act on new ideas. [...]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk]
I will be returning to the classroom at the end of August after a year as a special education consultant and professional development facilitator. I decided to return for a variety of reasons, the most important being that I miss the energy I pick up from daily contact with students and the next [...]
Image: photo of the St Lawrence River taken by me, available on flickr.
mrsdurff introduced me to Class 2.0 in a recent comment on Understanding the Machine.
I love the idea behind this site, and behind different workshops that places like LEARN in Quebec offer teachers.
How do we negotiate the space between resources on the one [...]
Image: Conversation by thehighschoolchick made available on flickr with a creative commons license.
Lately I have been voraciously reading and learning from different edubloggers. I am seeing my passion for authentic learning for our kids (and myself!) reflected in their posts. Here are just a few of the posts that have turned my crank in the [...]
Schools as professional learning communities: Collaborative activities and strategies for professional development by Sylvia M. Roberts and Eunice Z. Pruitt
The notion of professional learning communities excites me. I am jazzed about how people learn, especially with how we learn in relationship and collaboration with others who share our passions. The idea of a small [...]
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