21st Century Collaborative

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This post is inspired by the anger, jealousy, weariness and frustration from educators I have seen and heard lately as [...]

As the CEO of a professional development company whose mantra is “Professional Development for the 21st Century Educator” I find myself continually cognitively juggling what’s best for my clients, what’s best for their students, and what’s best for our contractors and staff in an effort to find some way of making it all align with [...]

This is a cross post from the PLP blog. I am very proud to announce a new initiative at Powerful Learning Practice: Voices from the Learning Revolution At PLP one of our core values is to build capacity in others and more specifically, our PLPeeps. We believe part of our role is to create educational [...]

Have you ever woke up and had something burning inside you that you know you are supposed to write or develop and yet you just do not have your mind around it yet? That’s me this morning. So I am being faithful to the urgency and seeing where my fingers are going to take me. [...]

Dear Staff, I have been thinking of you today. Thinking about your various roles within Powerful Learning Practice. Thinking about how I can help you (us) be more passionate about what you (we) do and how I can provide vision, hope, trust and inspiration as the leader of our company. This is “our” company you [...]

Repost from Scott’s site: Chris Lehmann and Scott McLeod submitted our book to the publisher yesterday: McLeod, S., & Lehmann, C. (Eds.). (in press). What school administrators need to know about digital technologies and social media. The book is intended to help administrators gain a basic knowledge base, think critically about some key issues, and get [...]

The idea of leader learner has actually been around for some time. Collective wisdom, collective efficacy, construction of knowledge collectively and collaboratively are all something that have grabbed my attention as of late. When I was in Ontario, keynoting the ECOO conference, I got into a very interesting conversation with a gentleman named Jeff about [...]

How ironic right? So typical of leadership today (crazed with busy) that I am writing my leadership day post a day late. Indicative for sure of why we are not moving along faster in our leading of transformational change. We are so busy and overwhelmed with the work that who has time to change? For [...]

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. – William James It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique. – Phillip [...]

Laura Varlas wrote an interesting piece in ASCD “Caught in the Middle” July 2010 | Volume 52 | Number 7 Called- Looking Within: Teachers Leading Their Own Learning She had me at her opening line, “The most powerful and ample resource for change in education is teachers’ own expertise. Yet, teachers are regularly overstepped when [...]