{"id":1338,"date":"2016-04-04T08:06:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2016-04-04T08:06:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:06:17","slug":"you-can-never-network-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"You Can Never Network Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief observation before heading out to the first full day of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosnconference.org\">CoSN Conference<\/a>. Yesterday, I had the chance to meet with a group of other state leaders. There was lots of learning but the best came as a round table discussion around various practices. We all had something to contribute; we all had questions that needed answered. The facilitator was smart: she saw the good sharing and, despite blowing up the agenda, she let it keep going, finding places where information could be shared via email instead of face to face. I know teachers don&#8217;t always have that option, but sometimes it&#8217;s worth giving up our agenda for the good of the group when the learning and sharing are more powerful than that curriculum and content. \u00a0It&#8217;s also a lesson for professional developers out there: create a structure for learning that includes opportunities for the participants to ask and answer the questions around the content. You, the trainer, don&#8217;t have to be talking all the time.<\/p>\n<p>The title of this post, by the way, isn&#8217;t original to me: it comes from a colleague in Virginia who made the comment during a recent meeting. We have so much to learn from and share with others when it comes to how we are chipping away at the wicked problems of education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief observation before heading out to the first full day of the CoSN Conference. Yesterday, I had the chance to meet with a group of other state leaders. There was lots of learning but the best came as a round table discussion around various practices. We all had something to contribute; we all had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1338\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You Can Never Network Too Much<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[101],"tags":[415],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-development","tag-networking"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-lA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}