21st Century Collaborative

I had the opportunity recently to facilitate a group of business, education, political and community leaders in a discussion about developing a workforce ready group of graduates in the 21st Century. I was given the task of relaying the experience. I have decided to share with you to see if you agree or disagree with [...]

Sheryl's excellent adventure started in Australia! I was invited to keynote the ELH conference in Victoria, Australia.  As I was preparing to go an amazing thing happened that shows the power of the network. I had announced on Twitter I was going and lo and behold the most wonderful direct message came through, "Hi Sheryl [...]

My life has been a whirlwind of activity since NECC and I have found it hard to keep up with blogging. I don’t know why, but I feel guilty blogging when I have other deadlines looming. Do any of you experience that? Is it illogical? Should I blog anyway, much like we still get the [...]

Man, I love this work! Connecting and collaborating is something that really comes natural for me. I am the social cognitive learning theory poster child and I am finding that others also relate well to learning while observing and collaborating with others. Working with others online on common goals in an effort to improve education [...]

This post may be premature as I have only seen 2/3s of the PLP Independent Schools’ team presentations of their impact journey through PLP and team projects- but I must say, Will and I were more than impressed. It was more on the level of WOW. From extensive summer institutes with a Web 2.0 registration [...]

Quite a few teacher leaders have been joining the blogosphere as of late. Looking for some provocative new bloggers to add to your aggregator? These thought provoking practitioners will NOT let you down. Teacher Leaders Nerwork BLOGS Bill Ferriter – The Tempered Radicalhttp://teacherleaders.typepad.com/the_tempered_radical/ Nancy Flanagan – Teacher in a Strange Landhttp://teacherleaders.typepad.com/teacher_in_a_strange_land/ Renee Moore – TeachMoorehttp://teacherleaders.typepad.com/teachmoore/ [...]

Tech Enhanced Learning Anne Davis is an amazing teacher and woman. Yesterday my students had the priviledge of spending 50 minutes with her chatting as though we were having tea around the kitchen table. Anne style is so natural and relaxed that she makes you feel like all of this is really doable. The students [...]

Ok. I have a question. So two days ago I finally added a cluster map to my blog. I was able to track world visitors in my site counter, but it isnt public. So I decided to follow the lead of many of you and add one for public viewing. But I am confused. Here [...]

I was over at  Around the Corner where Miguel Guhlin posts, reading his latest Girls and their Gadgets I was moved. I so identified with the ideas and feelings he expressed. I’m sorry, I see the benefits, but it appears that giving kids access to  the Read/Write web is like putting a loaded pistol in [...]

Creativity has always come easy for me. I love problem solving, brainstorming, and idea sharing. I remember watching Bewitched as a kid and wanting to grow up and do her husband Darrin Stephen’s job. He was a rising young advertising executive who worked at the New York firm of McMahon and Tate. The shows where [...]