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We provide professional development for 21st century educators. Our brand of job-embedded learning is built around social media and Web 2.0 tools. Our participants are part of intensive, organic, learner-directed, collaborative communities of practice that focus on leveraging emerging technologies as tools for deep learning and principled change.

"Using seven design principles and a simple method, the World Café is a powerful social technology for engaging people in conversations that matter, offering an effective antidote to the fast-paced fragmentation and lack of connection in today's world. Based on the understanding that conversation is the core process that drives personal, business, and organizational life, the World Café is more than a method, a process, or technique - it's a way of thinking and being together sourced in a philosophy of conversational leadership."

"This site is designed to provide information about instructional design principles and how they relate to teaching and learning. Instructional design, also know as instructional systems design, is the analysis of learning needs and systematic development of instruction. Instructional designers often use instructional technology or educational technology as tools for developing instruction. Instructional design models typically specify a method, that if followed will facilitate the transfer of knowledge, skills and attitude to the recipient or acquirer of the instruction. Obviously paying attention to "best practices", and innovative teaching methods will make any instructional design model more effective."

Changing one's behavior is one thing; it's keeping it changed that's often the real challenge, particularly when it's something we "know" we have to do. Using principles of Constructive-Developmental Theory, Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey developed a personal development process that allows individuals and teams to overcome their "immunities to change" and achieve the personal goals that are most important to them. The heart of this immunity to change™ process is constructing a four-column "change map" that not only outlines your personal development goal but also reveals the hidden commitments that have been getting in the way of you achieving your goal.

Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. UDL provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs.

"7 Things You Should Know About Agile Development"