If you have not completed our post-WROE Skills online assessment please do so before the holiday break.

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Happy Holiday's WROE Graduates!

--WROE Training Team

Please complete the post-WROE survey by Wednesday, November 26. To access the survey, click on the link below...

WROE Faculty Thanks you!

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Randy Pausch, the terminally ill professor who gave his farewell lecture and made millions rethink life succumbed to cancer July 25, 2008. Mr. Pausch was 47 years old when he died at home surronded by his family, wife Jai and their three children.

Randy Pausch's Last Lecture

Carnegie Mellon University
Randy Pausch's Web Site click here

See right-side column; click on Module 5 for reservation details and reading assignments...

Revised (11/30/2007)

Well then, just jog over there and click it darling--->.

This is a great opportunity for WROE participants. We are delighted to welcome John Izzo back to the NEA community ~ this time in our online learning space. John was the featured speaker at last year's Building Strong Affiliates conference (April, 2006) and inspired many with the concepts he described in his book Awakening Corporate Soul. His book is one of the WROE primary texts that we'll continue to explore in upcoming modules. WROE team members can explore the concepts with John and their relationship to organizational transformation and perhaps their application to the practica that you working on. This conversation will be from Oct 1-8 only.

We hope to hear from last year’s conferees on how you/they have used, reflected upon, or questioned the things learned about the Four Paths. For others, it's an initial opportunity to learn about the Paths and their application. You’ll find a video of John Izzo describing the paths in the item entitled “What Are The Four Paths?”

Go to http://nea.gjhost.org and click on the Four Paths. If you haven’t registered yet first click on New Registrations in the Login box and create an easy to remember user id and password – registering takes less than a minute. We think you’ll find the space easy to use even if you’re not a techie (-;.

Hope to see you there. And please feel free to pass this along to others that you think might be interested.

Also, if you receive this information through other channels, please forgive the duplication.

You'll find informaton on the hotel under Module 3 in the right hand column.

Make your reservations soon~

Be well, Donna

Starleen Orullian (Utah):

I ran across this today in my travels and thought I would forward to you in light of our discussion at OE Training in Dallas.
Thank You Starleen!!

eSchool News

February 1, 2007

Employee blogs are growing exponentially in the private sector and also are increasingly cropping up in public schools. While these blogs show great promise from a number of perspectives, it's important for school leaders to adopt sound policies governing their use. Self-initiated and often self-sustaining, employee blogs can speed information sharing, increase problem-solving, and improve productivity within an organization.
For example, teachers can post an internal blog about a challenge they're facing in the classroom and receive hundreds of potential solutions from their colleagues quickly and easily.

Combined with RSS feeds, which automatically update subscribers whenever new content is posted, blogs can be used to swap lesson plans, teaching strategies, discipline tips, and new research.

Blogging's potential for connecting and engaging employees in online conversations can help reduce classroom isolation, as teachers find a home in professional online communities.

[READ online @ eSchool News]