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After reading David Warlick's blog post this evening, I started to think about how schools can take this advice? I know we are focused on creating a Personal Learning Community. What does that mean? It can't mean just solely focusing on data driven instruction. It has to start somewhere in our classrooms. We need to make the connections to our students and create a level of trust along with nurturing them. Why not start by "Cultivating a Learning Community"? Why not celebrate things we learn and are good at? By asking questions and wanting to genuinely know the answers from those students, teachers, parents, administrators and who ever else we can find to ask, we will be creating a nurturing community of learners. If we listen closely, the kids want to tell us about their lives, their interests, and what they are most passionate about. We can the allow them to feel vested in their learning. We can then use these answers to create meaningful lessons for our students which support and encourage their passions. We should try to ask more questions and then listen carefully.
