You Want A Career Changing Learning Experience #sol15

posted on March 8, 2015 I almost did not post on Saturday because I was at EdCamp OKC. I had the opportunity to meet well-known bloggers from our state, share ideas with smart, dedicated teachers during the conference and afterwards. Rob Miller and Jason James in the Blogging to Blogger session at #EdCampOKC. Hey! Who’s blog is that in the background?! It is after 11 p.m. and I am still wound up from all the connecting and learning we did today. I probably have ideas for 20 blog posts (maybe a slight use of hyperbole there†¦.) and the framework for my curriculum for next year, with a possible unit for beta testing in April. Oh, and an evidence/device based activity that the kids can do in May that will show what they have learned through the year. I also decided to be brave and host a couple of sessions in the afternoon: The Power of an Online PLC and  Teaching Reading Comp in MS Multi Ability Groups. I learned so much from the wonderful educators involved in those sessions! Here is the poster on which I signed up for the sessions.    My head is going to explode. Piedmont Intermediate Principal Shawn Blankenship, left, Clinton Assistant Superintendent Tyler Bridges, right, and others at the Power of an Online PLC session I hosted.    I am not going to sleep. I must get the after-edcampokc notes off my scrap papers and onto an electronic device. I may have my overall lesson plan ideas for next year†¦ Did I mention I have a perspective-changing conversation at a restaurant afterwards, that might lead to at least one interview that will help the  readers — both parents and educators — of this blog have a better understanding of a certain learning difference? You want a career-changing learning experience? Go to an EdCamp near you! This is me. Yes, I meant to look goofy. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it†¦ P.S. Thank you Amanda for hanging out with me today, and inspiring me as you’ve been doing for years now. My friend and 3rd grade teacher at Kelley Elementary, Amanda Smith Michelle WatersI am a secondary English Language Arts teacher, a University of Oklahoma student working on my Master’s of Education in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum with an concentration in English Education, and a NBPTS candidate. I am constantly seeking ways to amplify my students’ voices and choices.