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How to Build Your PLN

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Having people who understand how you think, have your back in emergencies, and serve as a virtual knowledge base will help you to handle difficult colleagues, adapt to challenging principals, address tricky parents, and differentiate for varied student needs. Here’s why: It helps you grow professionally. Participate.

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Beyond the Genius Bar: Cultivating Leadership With a Student-Led Tech Team

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After all, many of us would agree that the students are the ones who are usually the most knowledgeable, up-to-date resources for what is the latest and greatest with technology, so why not tap into their large knowledge base and cultivate their leadership potential? Here’s how it happened. Karla Hanson, first-grade teacher.

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