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Hi there August! Here's some new welcome back to school and PD specific blog content, info on our new 3D Printing Workshop, a great podcast about growing with PBL, and an inspirational video about Long Spoons.

Enjoy your school year and email me your questions!

Drew Perkins
Director of Professional Development
wegrowteachers.com
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Welcome Back-to-the-Classroom Series!


Check out the August 1-5 content over at the mothership, TeachThought.com, geared especially for your back to school needs. We started with: The First 6 Weeks: Strategies For Getting To Know Your Students!

Using 3D Printing In Your Classroom


We're excited to add this great workshop to our library of Tech Integration Workshops (scroll toward the bottom)! This workshop will guide you through the process of choosing the right design software, how to operate the software properly, manage student’s projects, how to use the 3D printer and corresponding software and all intricacies of preparing your 3D printer for use on a long term basis. 

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Ep. 43 Let’s Grow Students With PBL And Urban Agriculture


Need some energy and inspiration to get your school year started?? Look (or listen) no further than the unbelievably energetic Stephen Ritz of the Green Bronx Machine. Tune into Episode 43 of the TeachThought Podcast to listen to my conversation with Stephen as he shares how he's turning high poverty students into lifelong learners by doing one of our favorite things...growing. 

The “Allegory Of The Long Spoons”


Looking to grow the culture at your school or classroom? I'm a big fan of using short video clips as discussion starters and I love this one! The “allegory of the long spoons” teaches us that when we struggle to feed only ourselves, everyone goes hungry. But when we focus on our neighbor’s hunger, we discover there are ways to feed everyone.

Watch this 1 minute video >>

New PD Specific Blog Content!


We've begun adding blog content that we feel may be specifically helpful to folks interested in our PD services. Much of it is duplicate content from TeachThought.com but carefully curated to be a little more focused. Much of it is authored by myself at this point but keep an eye out for new content by our workshop facilitators in the near future!

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