Technology and PLCs

NESS Liaison Debra Stahl from Parkway Middle is a participant of a Teacher Leadership Professional Learning Community (PLC) that is learning about developing effective PLCs. Debra journals her experiences with the rest of her team via Tangler.com, an online discussion network. Her latest entry expresses her experience with sharing responsibility, collaboration, and technology.

"Ms. Badio, an Instructional Coach and our Teacher of the Year who totally is into technology and also is paperless in her math class have run the last two months of our NESS learning community. She has been showing the entire group online resources that new teachers and really all educators can use. These resources are great for the students because of the world in which we live in today. It brings the teaching to a different level when trying to get students to buy into what is taking place in the classroom. It is interesting to see how the younger new teachers pick up what she is showing so quickly, while someone like me has to take notes and write down the steps involved. We even have started our own online community through Wiki (didn't know what that was either), which is somewhat what we are doing here on Tangler. Ms. Badio shared with the group, "Wiki is a powerful tool for multiple people to edit documents, work together and coordinate projects." She posts information for the new educators and coaches and we can log on and talk with one another on the site as well. It is great!!"

Thanks to Ms. Badio and Debra Stahl