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Organize and Motivate Your Local Maker Community

Digital Promise

For example, one October meet-up in the Bay Area was focused on “Hacking Your Space.” Edcamps are free, public, professional development opportunities organized by educators, for educators. Edcamps are free, public, professional development opportunities organized by educators, for educators. Regional and National Convenings.

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Professional Development Done With Us, Not To Us

The Jose Vilson

For my part, I partook four events: a multilingual learner and teacher meet-up with Alejandra Vázquez Baur, a mentorship session focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and a book signing (I can’t believe This Is Not A Test is still selling well after a decade!). And that they did.

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On Professional Development and The Places We Don’t Have Yet

The Jose Vilson

Later that night, I started to think about the workshops I’d like to attend the next day. For anyone who has seen me do a presentation at a conference, you may know that I also participate in the conference as well. Yet, the point I rarely see brought up (unless I do) is what happens once the teacher meets the school building.

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Fun with Lucidspark!

Kathy Schrock

THE TOOLS AND RESOURCES When you first open up Lucidspark , you are presented with the ability to create a folder, start with a blank document, or pick a template. MIND MAPS CONCEPT MAPS K-W-L CHARTS TEAM BUILDING EXERCISES CLASSIFICATION PROJECT PLANNING MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS STICKY NOTES (great for EdCamps, too!)

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My #ISTE17 Takeaways

Tech Helpful

Meeting up with my friend Rachelle Poth on the last day led to one of my greatest moments of reflection. Rachelle presented multiple times (and I must say she's amazing at sharing her classroom stories) and I was there as an attendee only. Why not meet them where they already are looking?

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3 Steps to Creating Empowered Leadership in Your School

Kyle Pace

All too often in education – whether that be at a conference, in a professional learning workshop, or even at a faculty meeting, we have become used to one person in the room being the “expert”, or the “Oz” around a particular topic. This post was also a guest post for McGraw-Hill Education. If no, then why not?

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3 Steps to Creating Empowered Leadership in Your School

Kyle Pace

All too often in education – whether that be at a conference, in a professional learning workshop, or even at a faculty meeting, we have become used to one person in the room being the “expert”, or the “Oz” around a particular topic. Are you making time for others to share their stories? If no, then why not?

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