Professional development for educators needs to change. We know this.

Traditional in-service days or two-hour workshops just no longer work in a world where learning is anytime, anywhere, with anyone.

If you too know that the old model isn't working any longer, and if you're looking for a professional development experience that blends the best of Web 2.0 tools with a commitment to long-term, job-embedded learning, we invite you to consider joining one of 15 Powerful Learning Practice (PLP) cohorts now being formed for the 2010-11 school year.

Led by co-founders Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson, over 3,000 teachers in PLP cohorts from across the US, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia have already learned how to move both their personal and professional learning practice forward to embrace the great opportunities that social online learning tools have created. This year, we're looking for 1,500 more teachers to join us.

Powerful Learning Practice offers what no other PD experience out there does: a blend of face to face and online interaction over a 7-8 month period led by a collection of the most experienced, passionate educators in the field. And we do it not by delivering a course but by creating a community — a community of educator learners who support each others' efforts to improve their own practice throughout.
And it works."

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