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Welcome to our SPRING PLN 1 wiki (with continued use of Fall PLN 1 and Spring PLN 2 postings and resources) ==The purpose of this wiki is to serve as a place for information and collaboration! If you are not familiar with the world of wikis, don't worry as navigation is easy and help is as close as an email or maybe the teacher next door.==

Important dates - PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGES (ELIMINATION OF SATURDAY DATE, REPLACED WITH MONDAY, MAY 14)
Monday, March 19, 2012 Monday, March 26, 2012 Monday, April 2, 2012 Monday, April 16, 2012 Monday, April 23, 2012 Monday, April 30, 2012 Monday, May 7, 2012 Monday, May 14, 2012 - Projects due

If you have missed class(es), please submit a 2-3 page reflection on a professional article. You may choose one of your own, or select one of the many articles available at the PLN website. Please attach a copy of the article to the reflection. Submit one article/reflection for each class missed (2 articles for missing a Saturday class).

Begin by opening the following: www.gse.upenn.edu/pln Then scroll to the bottom on the page and click on __Bulkpack Index.__ At the prompt, enter **bulkpack** for the username and **reading30** for the password.

** Please email with your questions - kathyyorks@hotmail.comand/or coach_christina@yahoo.com - and don't forget our class mottos... ** ** __No Worries and Be Present!!__ ** **For Monday, March 26:**  **• Read pages A-4 to A-14 in the red Resource Book. "Mark up" the text (underline, highlight, notemake, etc) and be prepared to share your thoughts and reactions to the reading.**  **• Read some of the Discussion postings from the previous PLN 1 and 2 classes. To do so, click on the discussion tab at the top of this page (it looks like a little "talk bubble").**  **• Think about - what does engagement look like?** **For Monday, April 2:**  **• Write a 1-2 page journal reflection - think about your practice (as a teacher, coach, principal) and reflect on the place of the lenses in your classroom, or the classrooms you observe. What is going well? What needs a bit more work?** **For Monday, April 16:**  **• Now that we've learned about the Effective Model of Engagement and the key features of designing engaging lessons, let's begin to put our new learnings into practice. For our next class, design a lesson(s) that you are going to teach, or revise a lesson previously taught using the EME format. Bring a hard copy with you to class so that we can use it for discussion.**  **• Our next class will focus on reading - to get a head start of this topic, feel free to read Chapter 1 in __Plainer Truths__ (the small black book).** **For Monday, April 30:**  **• Based on our conversations about writing, think about the various writing activities that you do with your students. Please bring some samples of student writing to class; hopefully, you've been able to do not only Collins 1 and 2 but also 3 with some FCAs.**  **• Bring some ideas for your unit project - you will have a little time to work and receive help from us with your questions.**