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In the attempt to become proficient in 21st century learning, four teachers and one administrator from our school district took part in the Illinois/Ohio PLP cohort during the 2008-2009 school year. After months of online networking, virtual conferencing, and face to face work sessions, this wiki space became our culminating project. We hope that you will find this to be a useful resource and that you not only contribute regularly both through posts and through commenting on others' posts but that you also begin to establish your own digital footprint!

__**[|From the PLP website:]**__ **Powerful Learning Practice** offers a unique opportunity for educators to participate in a long-term, job-embedded professional development program that immerses them in 21st Century learning environments. The PLP model is currently enabling hundreds of educators around the country to experience the transformative potential of social Web tools to build global learning communities and re-envision their own personal learning practice.
 * PLP’s learning cohorts** are led by internationally recognized voices and practitioners in the field of educational technology. Based on a highly successful Microsoft grant-funded pilot carried out in Alabama over the last four years, the cohort model uses a blend of face to face and online curriculum to connect small teams of educators from forward thinking schools and grows those connections over the course of a school year. Finally, it prepares schools and districts to move forward in systemic ways after the one-year commitment ends by laying the groundwork for three and five-year community building project plans.

Alison Cox Abby Kelton Stephanie Moisio Ian Thome Felice Willis Mike Zaletel
 * Questions? Concerns? Contact any of the following team members for assistance:**