Time to nominate some of your favorite blogs for the annual Edublogs awards, sponsored by the wonderful folks at Edublogs! For more information on how to nominate a blog, check out the instructions here. For those of you newer to the process, nominations by everyone are welcome, so join in to nominate your favorites! I’m not into this because of the “contest” part of it, but because it affords me the opportunity to consider what I’m currently reading and thinking about in terms of the […]
Tag: PLP
Taking the reins of professional development — PLP
Too often it seems as educators we find ourselves “at the mercy” of professional development that is last minute, impersonal, and of which we are just passive recipients. One of the things I admire most about the work that colleagues Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson have done is that they’ve “taken the reins” of professional development, so to speak, by creating their PLP (Powerful Learning Practices) professional development venture. Realizing the problems in terms of professional growth with one-time PD opportunities, they created a model […]