I’ve gone to many conference, read books, articles and been involved with Professional Learning Communities in its official form for about 5 years. Assessment For Learning which is so tightly tied to effective PLC’s is also something I’m very comfortable with. Today as I listened to many qualified, knowledgeable and engaging speakers and...

I’ll take a crack at some live blogging. I think Doug Belshaw might be “irritated” but here we go: My thoughts are in UPPERCASE. I can see much of this might be incoherent…if there’s value or need for clarification or discussion, leave a comment. Conference page Doug Reeves: Four Questions What do students need to learn? How do we...

Professional Learning Communities (PLC’s) continue to get a lot of attention as new models of Professional Development for learning.  I’ve been part of formal PLC’s for about 6 years. In the new school district I work for, many of our teachers and schools are new to PLC’s and are discovering their power.  Some of these teachers come...

It’s been amazing to be able to virtually participate in a number of conferences thanks to bloggers and servcies like hitchhikr. Alan November’s Building Learning Communities in Boston would have been another great conference to attend. Steve Dembo’s post on Dr. Andy Hargreaves keynote has caught my attention. I’ve been involved in supporting...