21st Century Collaborative

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 [...]

Dear Will, You know better than anyone that I am an optimist. I truly do see possibilities more than problems. Well, I woke up this morning feeling empty. I woke up grieving for children. I blame it on a dream I had. A dream about unhappy students, hundreds of them, shuffling through halls with broken [...]

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 [...]

Powerful Learning Practice is expanding our offerings as we enter our fourth year of PLP. I can’t believe we’re finishing up our third year of this work already, and I can’t say enough about the amazing team of educators who have joined us in this work; we both feel very fortunate to work with all [...]

Ever wondered what PLP is all about? Susan Carter Morgan shares about her PLP experience.

I have been thinking a lot about how to manage the needed change process in education. Looks like a lot of folks have been playing with that idea as well. ISTE released their new NETS for ADMIN framing it as having the potential for – Transforming Education- Administrators play a pivotal role in determining how [...]

This was posted on the NSDC Website- felt you might find it s interesting as I do. The Department of Education has outlined initial guidelines for three components of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding: the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, Title I, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). You can find detailed [...]

Will and I are excited to announce the inaugural Powerful Learning Practice Visioning Boot Camp for Educational Leaders to be held at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia this summer. You can get all of the details here, but the bottom line is we’ve put together a three-day event for a limited number (25) of [...]

In this new year many of us have promised ourselves to try and find more balance in our lives. I personally vowed to spend more time connected with the earth through hiking, walking on the beach, and playing hard with my four 20-something kids. And yet with all of the meaningful work I am engaged [...]

It has been two months since I have posted. I don’t know why I am telling you, because obviously if you are still hanging in there as my reader you know this to be true. I have been busy traveling, presenting, convening a conference and posting in the situated learning communities to which I belong- [...]