professional learning communities

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.

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.

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!