How’s your honeycomb? Collecting pollen and making honey #professionallearning | Connected Principals

How’s your honeycomb? Collecting pollen and making honey #professionallearning | Connected Principals:

How’s your honeycomb? Collecting pollen and making honey #professionallearning

by Bo Adams

Many – maybe all – schools send teachers to conferences. This practice seems important (otherwise, why do we do it, right?). It’s like collecting pollen for the hive. Curious, ambitious teachers venture out to conferences – ASCD, Learning Forward, NAIS, EduCon, SXSWedu, Solution Tree, etc. – to learn and grow. To collect pollen for the hive.
How does your school work to transform that collected pollen into honey? How do you set up and maintain your “honey production system?” How’s your honeycomb?
Do the teachers …

• Tweet tidbits of learning and links to resources gathered during the conference experience?
• Storify the highlights from multiple Twitter accounts active during the event?
• Share blog posts about what they learned?
• Create a podcast or short summary video to distribute like