Hey Administrators and Principals –

You’re invited to a FREE, online administrators’ seminar tomorrow.  Finding time to complete tasks and duties may seem impossible… But it’s actually much easier than you think!

In a quick 30 minute seminar, experienced principal, Lyn Hilt, will discuss how Google Apps can help school leaders streamline tasks and save valuable time and effort.

This online seminar is part of tomorrow’s “Administrator Day of Learning”. Join us and you’ll discover how to use Google Apps to collaborate, communicate, document, and survey.

What: Online Seminar, Google …

Teachers aren’t the only ones that need training. It’s important for administrators and principals to keep up with the latest educator trends and topics too.
Administrators … you’re in for a treat.  If you like our webinars, you are going to LOVE our “Administrator Day of Learning”!
Join us on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 for SimpleK12′s first-ever Administrator Day of Learning, an afternoon full of administrator subject-specific webinars!

IMPORTANT:  Registration is FREE but you must have a free basic membership account to the Teacher Learning Community in order to register.  If you do …

Back by popular demand – We’re repeating this exciting
administrator webinar!  If you weren’t able to attend the
first Live session, no problem.  Attend the Encore showing!

Are you tired of wasting time and money on professional
development that your teachers just don’t use?  You are
invited to a FREE, online workshop that will share
money-saving tips on PD that works!
Join me, Grace Dunlap, as I share with you the four key
elements that always need to be considered when
engaging your teachers in professional development.
Webinar Details:

What:   Secrets to a Successful PD …

Ready for another fun (and FREE!) opportunity to learn amongst your peers?  Look no further – there’s another EdCamp this weekend!
The following is a guest post written by one of EdCamp Waterloo Region’s organizers, Kim Gill.
EdCamp Waterloo Region is an exciting educational event coming to our area on March 31st. EdCamps have been held in cities right across North America for several years. The basic premise of EdCamp is that it is “free, democratic, participant-driven professional development for teachers”. This video explains it best:

edcamp Waterloo Region Promo Video from GillVille …

The following is a guest post written by EdCamp Social Studies Co-Organizers, Heather Kilgallon and Suzie Nestico.
Let’s Camp!
Are you doing something amazing in your classroom that engages students and helps them to learn more? Do your students love social studies and love learning in your class? Or, perhaps, you feel stymied or frustrated by the current state of our education system? Do budget cuts and dwindling resources leave you little choice but to teach in isolation?
Join over one-hundred educators, coming from all corners of the country, on …

The following is a guest post from Pernille Ripp, a 5th grade teacher in Middleton, Wisconsin.
10 Thoughts on Professional Development

Why do we even call it professional development? Being in education is so much more than just being a professional and development happens continually around us. Perhaps we should call it something different like expanding as an educator or how about just growth? Either professional development smacks of something that can only happent at a set time and is just not true, which leads me to …

The following is a guest post from Terie Engelbrecht, one of the EdCamp Chicago organizers.
If you look at the home page for the Edcamp Foundation’s homepage, you’ll see that it says that edcamps are all about “promoting organic, participant-driven professional development for K-12 educators worldwide.” At Edcamp Chicago, being held this year at East Leyden High School in Franklin Park, IL, we aim to provide this type of professional development experience: one that is developed by and for the teachers and administrators that attend, education for educators tailored to …