Well, tomorrow is day 2 of the experiment with the BC teachers and the LCC, and as usual, I am in panic mode.
I woke up and nearly decided to start all over or maybe call in sick, but a few minutes of prayerful meditation, a cup of Guatemalan coffee and a cookie have refocused me.
Plato says that to teach is to start a fire. That is, it is not about the transfer of information. I think sometimes we forget that Prof Dev in schools should also be an act of fire starting, not just an unloading of research and studies and quotes.
So tomorrow I want each BC teacher to set up a blog, set up a Google Drive account and do some collaborative writing in small groups, set up a wikispaces page, and then establish some important links at the blog: edutopia, The New York Times Learning blog, etc.
But lastly and most critically, I want to get everyone in the meeting to commit to some specific aspect of the LCC that they HAVE NEVER tried before. Over the next ten weeks, we'll check in and see what they can produce.
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