I once joined a professional learning community (PLC) for their bi-monthly afternoon meeting. The...
Professional Learning
Personalized Professional Learning
Empowerment is critical to personal learning, and, as a result, many have resorted to providing...
Shifting Professional Learning from Compliance to Empowerment
As educators, we are socialized in various ways including the observations of our previous...
Support That Impacts New Teacher Development and Retention
Teaching involves many complex tasks. New teachers, no matter which route of preparation taken,...
Teachers Create What They Experience: 10 Strategies for Improving Staff Meetings
The more a teacher knows about teaching and has opportunities to develop the fundamental skills to...
3 Professional Learning Practices that Honor the Expertise of Educators
A recent article in EdWeek highlighted the frustration that many educators feel in professional...
Creating a Professional Learning Culture Where the Input and Opinions of Teachers are Valued
The teacher-leader model standards highlight that, “An effective teacher is the strongest...
What #EdTech Conferences Could Be
This week Eric Patnoudes posted this tweet....
Dr. Katie Martin
Dr. Katie Martin is the author of Learner-Centered Innovation and VP of Leadership and Learning at Altitude Learning. She teaches in the graduate school of Education at High Tech High and is on the board of Real World Scholars. Learn More.
LEARNER-CENTERED INNOVATION
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A Sense of Hope and Possibility
This week I got to host school visits that were postponed from March of 2020 (ya know, because of...
What I am reading, learning, and doing to inspire creativity and wellbeing
For the first time in my life (seriously) I have the house to myself for the whole weekend! I...
Redefining Success
I had the opportunity to connect with teachers this week who are reading Evolving Education. As we...
Creating More Opportunities for Learner Agency
Agency by definition is the power to act. But too often this is misconstrued as a free-for-all. We...