Building on the power of team...

Today, I was not working in my zone, my erg, my strengths. I feel like, on a scale of 1 to 5, I preformed at 2.

I have an awesome team of teacher leaders forming within our district. It is so exciting I just can't stand not shouting about it! My lead tech team is awesome! The level of investment in professional staff development they give is passionate. They only survive through the intrinsic motivation that feeds their desire to educate all children who pass through our hands.

Our grass roots teachers are becoming practitioners equipped with 21 century pedagogy and skills. If you haven't been following our posts over at the usd352summerinstitute07 blog, we have had 12 students in class for four six-hours days plus two virtual students working in "Web 2.0 and the Digital Classroom". I know I speak for the entire team when I say we are so proud of you. So many had to have day-care providers for two and more children and the entire team has sacrificed family time to attend. These teachers are not getting paid extra. They come to learn! Bravo! Teacher leaders? Absolutely!

The trick is keeping the momentum going and remaining an active participant in the "social networks" we are creating.

I leave you with a great post by Will Richardson at Weblogg-ed who writes about passionate based learning.

Enjoy!

The meaning of tags..

Why would you think tags are important? Are they important?

Rethinking literacies?

How do we need to rethink our ideas of literacy when we must prepare our students to become not only readers and writers, but editors and collaborators as well?

Changes in teaching?

What changes must we make in our teaching as it becomes easier to bring primary sources to our students?

Changes in curriculum?

What needs to change about our curriculum when our students have the ability to reach audiences far beyond our classroom walls?