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#cyberPD Book Selections For a decade, #cyberPD has been an anticipated summer event to connect educators near and far in collaborative professional conversation. Through blogs, Twitter, and various digital media, participants share thinking around a common professional title featured for discussion. Though the main event is in July of each year, the conversations and connections carry across the year. Since #cyberPD's first event, we've grown from a group of less than 15 to a community of over 150 educators.   We have found this community to be powerful and the conversations have helped us grow in our journey as educators. These conversations have pushed us, made us uncomfortable, and allowed us the chance to see things from different perspectives. It’s amazing to think that #cyberPD was a pioneer for online book clubs and this community made it possible!   Yet, here we are today. When we got ready to “share our bookstacks,” COVID was in full swing and teachers we...

Announcing the 2019 #cyberPD Book! Check out our  NEW  #cyberPD MeWe Community   to learn more! We can't wait for YOU to join in the conversations! ________________________________________________________________ It's that time of year again! Cathy and I have finally selected our #cyberPD book for our summer learning. It's never an easy decision.  Conversations go back and forth.  Ideas fly.  Standards are high.  Book stacks full of possibilities are higher.  And then ... it happens.  The just right book emerges from the stacks. The book selection is important, but what makes this PD event truly successful are the amazing teachers and educators across the globe that support each other through the learning process. YOU make #cyberPD a success!  Thank YOU for joining us ... whether this is your very first year, or your 9th year,  or somewhere in between, we are thrilled YOU are joining in!  _______...

It's the 9th Annual #cyberPD Summer Event! Check out our NEW  #cyberPD MeWe Group   to learn more! We can't wait for YOU to join in the conversations! ________________________________________________________________ I can't believe it's that time of year already. Where do the days, weeks, months go? I'm ready to slow things down for summer and enjoy a few great books. Ok, who am I kidding? A LOT of great books. The one book always at the top of my list is the professional development book selected for #cyberPD. This book is treasured and shared by many educators across the globe as we come together to learn, to share, to grow, to know better, and to be better in all that we do. Here are the titles we have read over the last eight summers: Here's how #cyberPD Works: NOW ... The time to share your PD book stack! JUNE 1st ... The much anticipated #cyberPD book will be announced! This allows everyone time to purchase the book and begin readin...

    It's the 8th Annual  #cyberPD Summer Event! Join in our  #cyberPD Google+ Community  to participate! We want YOU to join in the conversations! This July we are reading and learning together around the new title from Sara Ahmed  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * My Thoughts and Reflections "... we will give ourselves permission to create learning conditions where kids can ask the question they want to ask, muddle through how to say the things they are thinking, and have tough conversations. We will be proactive in this pursuit. Truthfully, we will not have all the answers. No one does ."  (Ahmed, p.xxii) An Introduction to  Social Comprehension and Strategies to Prepare You for the Work Ahead :  Takeaways:  This introduction was packed...

I love sharing book titles with close friends, so I'm happy you are here! I want to share a book that you must add to your to-be-read list. Ruth Ayres has a brand new book titled  Enticing Hard-To-Reach Writers   published by Stenhouse Publishers. It's another must read from Ruth. There are many professional development books available to learn about mastering our craft of teaching.   However, there are only a few that make a true impact -- and this is one book that weaves raw truth, research, practical ideas, and story all in one {cute} little package.  In  Enticing Hard-To-Reach Writers , Ruth allows her worlds to collide during the creation:  "In this book, I entwine my three story lines as educator, momma, and writer." (p. 6) And she does this in an amazing way through sharing stories of her family, adoption, children living in hard places -- and doing their best  -- and healing. She shares how we can use research ...