This last Friday and Saturday, I was in a whole school workshop for PLCs (Professional Learning Communities). This is an initiative that our school has adopted this year and we had the first PD in August. It is very difficult to do whole school PD and meet the needs of all teachers. The downfall of PLC is with the specialist teachers, especially in the arts. PLCs do not address this issue enough and I guess they feel that it just not that important because if classroom teachers us it the data will show increased learning.
With this big push, I encouraged my group 23 to examine PLCs in our ppt. project. I thought it would be benefical to me and they seemed to like to idea of moving in this direction. I have been very lucky in my studies that what I am doing always seems to be relevant.
Last year at this time I went to the 21st Century Learning Conference in Shanghai will I was doing ETL501 Information Environment. I learned so much that my husband actually calls me a techie now! I am going again but this year it is in Hong Kong and once again I will be there for my birthday.
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