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Dear Professionals, Colleagues and Friends,

We are pleased to announce that joining ElEdBlog has never been easier if you already have a Facebook account. Just use the Facebook Connect button to the left and you'll have a profile in a snap. If you don't have a Facebook account, don't worry, you can still sign up for an ElEdBlog account the same way you did before. If you already have an ElEdBlog account and a facebook account, you can link the two and log in using the Facebook connect button from now on, if you like. Now it will be even easier to share great ideas, discussions, resources and other learning opportunities with your colleagues and Facebook friends. As always, Elementary Education Blog - ElEdBlog is a free resource for the educational community.

Help Build a Community of Learners

We are not merely teachers or educators, we are lifelong learners, and as such, please help us create a community of learners. ElEdBlog.com is a free resource for elementary education educators to blog, gather, discuss, and share resources. At ElEdBlog.com, we want to provide a place for teachers to share and access lesson.

By becoming a member, you can share your lesson plans as well as access the attached files associated with the lesson plans already submitted. As a member you can also create and join public and private groups, where you can meet in virtual professional learning communities to discuss topics which relate to you and your colleagues more specifically. Please join and help build this community and add to our shared knowledge and resources.

Our shared goal is the better education of all learner, including ourselves. We must be vigilant in pursuit of excellence by being intentional in all of our interactions with learners, seeking to learn and adopt proven best practices, actively reflecting, and participating in on-going professional learning communities.

ElEdBlog Introduces Groups!

Group of teachers in a professional learning community.

Dear Professionals, Colleagues and Friends,

We would like to introduce you EledBlog Groups. ElEdBlog Groups are designed to allow educators to gather in small, more specialized communities with common goals. For example, a state educational association can create a group. District employees can create a group, as can an individual school. Specialists, such as PE, librarians, or bilingual teachers could create a group. Even a grade band, grade level, or a grade-level team within a building could create a group. A cohort of student teachers could create a group too. You get the idea. Groups are only limited by your imagination!

About our Professional Study Group

This VES Professional Study Group is based on the recommendations described in Becoming a Literacy Leader, Supporting Learning and Change by Jennifer Allen to provide teachers with the opportunity to reflect, review and integrate new thinking into their classroom instruction. We use professional resources as springboards for discussion and personal examination. Most of what I have written here comes form Jennifer Allen’s wonderful book.
This year we have 10 teachers participating. We are Third Grade, Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade and Special education Teachers.  This is our fourth year for the book group and our first year using the blog.

Mentor Text by Grade level and Lesson Topic Link/Review of our 10/22 Mtg

At our first VES Professional Reading Group 2009-2010 meeting we covered a great deal in a very short period of time. 

The main highlights of our first meeting studying Units of Study were:

  • Covering the lessons the first time around seems to take much longer than expected
  • We decided we needed to create a mentor text list per grade level. Please Check this out:and THANK YOU Seattle!

http://www.eledblog.com/content/writers-workshop-book-lists-units-and-comprehension-strategies#comment-190

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