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Cultivating Lifelong Learners: How to Support Personalized Teacher Growth

A Principal's Reflections

Allow teachers to choose formats and topics that resonate with their individual learning preferences and goals (Desimone, 2009). Online courses and learning modules allow educators to access content at their own pace and on their own schedules. Efficacy should be the goal of all professional learning. Desimone, L. Guskey, T.

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The Professional Learning Sweet Spot

A Principal's Reflections

For the most part, this consisted of attending mandatory district “PD” days, professional learning communities (PLC)’s or approved off-site experiences such as conferences, workshops, or webinars. In March of 2009, I began to use Twitter, and it was at this time that I began to create a Personal Learning Network (PLN).

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Supplement Your Professional Learning with edWeb

A Principal's Reflections

Since 2009 I have been a huge believer and advocate for connected learning and the formation of Personal Learning Networks (PLN’s). Watch and participate in live webinars aligned to professional learning communities that are of interest to you. edWeb can be accessed on any mobile device.

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Google Certification LIVE (Claim your spot soon!)

The Electric Educator

In 2009 I attend the Google Teacher Academy (Now called the Google Innovator Academy) in Boulder, Colorado. Once a year I offer a free webinar to review the certification process and give away my best tips and resources to help you get Google Certified. The next free webinar is coming up! That one day changed my life.

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Do You Have the Backbone for a PLN?

My Island View

If there are three teachers teaching the same subjects in a school and are given equal access to technology, how can the technology impact on learning be fairly assessed? Today, access to information on the Internet is anytime, anywhere. Access devices are now plentiful, and Internet access has expanded and become cheaper.

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Supplement Your Professional Learning with edWeb

edWeb.net

Since 2009 I have been a huge believer and advocate for connected learning and the formation of Personal Learning Networks (PLN’s). Watch and participate in live webinars aligned to professional learning communities that are of interest to you. edWeb can be accessed on any mobile device. Follow Eric on Twitter @E_Sheninger.

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Celebrate the Freedom to Read: Helping Michelle crowd source this great BBW resource

NeverEndingSearch

My favorite is the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books from 2000-2009. Accessed September 25, 2015. In a Banned Websites Awareness Day (BWAD) webinar for AASL last week, a participant cautioned me against recommending Common Sense Media curriculum for digital citizenship lessons. “100 Most Challenged Books 2000-2009.”