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 …

Are you ready to learn a lot, meet some new friends, and walk away with tons of ideas you can immediately apply in your classroom? Well take a look at what the folks in Omaha, NE are doing…
The following is a guest post from Josh Allen, one of EdCamp Omaha’s organizers.
EdCamp Omaha
Ever want to see and hear what’s right about education? Need your edu-batteries recharged? There is no better place to do both than an EdCamp.
Let’s say that you just happen to live in the middle part of …

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 …

Do you like sharing ideas with other educators? Do you enjoy talking about the latest trends in education? Then Edcamp is for you! Allow me to introduce one of the upcoming free professional development events that SimpleK12 will be sponsoring:  EdCamp Delta!
Delta will host its inaugural Edcamp on January 14th, 2012 at Delta Secondary School in Ladner, BC.

Edcamps are hosted worldwide to allow for educators, students, parents, and anyone interested in education to participate in a one-day, free “unconference” without guest speakers or keynote speakers. The participants at …

Professional Development the way you like it: Participant-driven, engaging, and most of all – FUN!  I’m talking about EdCamps, of course. These UNconference events are popping up all over the place, the latest of which is EdCamp Lewi! 
EdCamps give you the chance to be the boss and decide what you will learn for the day.  When you show up to such an event, there will be an empty session board…waiting to be filled out by YOU! That’s right, all attendees have the opportunity to post session titles.  Pretty cool, huh?  …

Teachers -it’s time to Laissez les bons temps rouler (loosely translated, that means to let the good times roll).
We’re HUGE supporters of the EdCamp movement.  We’ve been sponsoring UNconferences all across the country for awhile now but I’m pleased to announce that there is finally an EdCamp being organized in my own home state -Louisiana!  So I’ve decided to do things a little differently this time; I asked one of the EdCamp organizers to share her story with us on our blog.
The following is a guest post from Valerie Burton, …