Previously, I wrote about my first experience running a session at Edcamp Leadership. I wasn’t just a participant, however; I was also on the organizational team. This post will focus more on my reflections from the standpoint of an event organizer. Organization We were doubtlessly helped by the fact that…
Category: Professional Development
Edcamp Leadership: Flipping the Faculty Meeting
Edcamp Leadership marked my entrance into the world of Edcamps this month, both as an attendee and an organizer. I have known most of the key players in the Edcamp Foundation for many years through traveling in the same educational circles in social media, so knowing the kinds of educators…
Introducing Edcamp Leadership
Most of you who read blogs by educators are at least passingly familiar with Edcamp, the participant-driven “unconference” for educators based on the BarCamp model. Edcamps typically do not have keynote speakers or even pre-determined workshop schedules; rather, attendees come together first thing in the morning to offer sessions based…
Re-Statement of Purpose: Why I Blog
Today marks exactly 4 1/2 years since I wrote my first blog post here at Apace of Change. In it, I laid out my initial intentions for this blog: …I want to engage with other educators – not just teachers, but administrators, psychologists, LDTCs, and others in the education field…
The End of Isolation
In September, I was very proud to have my first contribution to a peer-reviewed journal published. When a friend asked if I had publicized this on my blog, I paused, then realized that in the hubbub of the start of school, I had completely forgotten. So anyway, here goes: in…