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Another Building Learning Communities Conference in the books! What I enjoy most about the conference is the format, people, energy, and the way the conference gets me thinking. I’m going to share some of my notes in this post in case you who are interested in scrolling through… or for those of you who are at BLC with me who want to compare highlights :)

• #BLC19 Opening Keynote with @karen_brennan
• #BLC19 Session: Shifting Your Meeting Culture with @BullisUS & @buddyxo
• #BLC19 Session — #DigitalPortfolios & Documenting Learning with @langwitches
• #BLC19 Session — Evolving Learner: Shifting from Traditional Professional Development to Personalized Professional Learning with @lainierowell
• #BLC19 Session — Reflection & the Development of a Learning Mindset with @mrhallisb
• #BLC19 Keynote Panel – Scott Womack, Elliot Soloway & Cathie Norris, and Shaya Zarkesh
• #BLC19 Session — Making Thinking Visible: Embracing #EdTech to Give All Students an Equal Voice with @buddyxo (me!)
• #BLC19 Session — My Pencil Made Me Do It: Using Visual Thinking & Doodling to Enhance Learning with @HeckAwesome

Other session shared resources —

• Feedback In Lieu of Grade, By: Joy Kirr (@JoyKirr)
• Shift the Culture of  Your Classroom → Lessons Learned, By: Joy Kirr (@JoyKirr)
• Book recommendation — Teaching as a subversive activity
• “What are they thinking?” 5 E’s Lesson Design, By: Lainie Rowell (@lainierowell)
• Making Thinking Visible with Formative Assessment Tools – The Ultimate Crowdsourced Comparison Chart, By: Lainie Rowell (@lainierowell)
• Encouraging and Supporting Leaders to Foster Social Emotional Learning through Technology, By: @SIBOD31
• Student goal setting:
  • https://characterlab.org/
  • http://woopmylife.org/woop-1 
• Digital lessons, by Elliott Soloway and Cathy Norris: https://roadmap.center/

Recurrent Alan November question: unlearning is more difficult than learning something new. What do you need to unlearn to move forward?