21st Century Collaborative

Had the exciting priviledge of being interviewed by Steve Hargadon for his EdTalkLive show.EdTechLIVE’s weekly webcast interviews series by  Steve which focus on educational technology. His goal is to produce a library of recordings that provide good, brief introductions to different educational technologies that can be implemented in the K-12 school environment. I was most [...]

Emergence and empowerment are the most spectacular aspects of this stage of the journey on which I find myself. It is a dual occurrence, where as I help others blossom, I find myself learning, growing and empowered in equal proportion. I have the honor and privilege of teaching preservice teachers at the College of William [...]

The K12 Online Conference has now officially come to a close. I am feeling an odd mix of relief combined with sadness, with a touch of satisfaction thrown in- at how well it all seemed to go. Not bad for our first year and personally, as one of the conference conveners, I have learned so [...]

Exciting was the word of the day as 200 teachers, administrators, and other educational leaders gathered in Birmingham, Alabama for the second year kick-off of the ABPC 21st Century Teaching and Learning Project. The purpose of the 21st Century OctoberFest was to gear up for a busy second year of this incredible  professional development program [...]

    Alabama Best Practice Center  The Alabama Best Practice Center is gearing up for a busy second year of our professional development program that encourages powerful conversations and practice around 21st Century teaching and learning. Working with my colleagues, John Norton and Cathy Gassenheimer, we have begun the application process to bring 20 more [...]

I have been writing lately; a literature review and project description for a collaborative study I helped to design and implement around electronic mentorship. I dont think I have ever really described the project here so I thought I would share. We recently finished year one of the project and have finished our content analysis. [...]

A big thank you to all who helped with the Building Virtual Learning Communities workshop in Miami via Skype or Elluminate!!! Last week, I had the opportunity to meet and collaborate with some of Dade Schools teacher leaders– what an awesome bunch of educators. Their hospitality blew me away. The purpose of my session was [...]

Now that the last of the four 21st Century Learning sessions in Elluminate is over– it’s a good time to pause and reflect on where this work has taken the Alabama Best Practice Center’s 21st Century schools that are involved in the Microsoft 21st Century Partners’ project. Last night we had the final virtual 21st [...]

I am co-leading the most rewarding project with the Alabama Best Practice Center  that is being funded with a grant from Microsoft.  We have design a professional development program aimed at introducing schools to 21st Century Learning principles. Over a two-year period, 40 schools in the ABPC Powerful Conversations network will be invited to participate [...]