{"id":963,"date":"2016-10-01T18:58:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T18:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/?p=963"},"modified":"2016-10-04T15:22:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T15:22:45","slug":"cohort-21-wants-you-to-join-the-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/2016\/10\/01\/cohort-21-wants-you-to-join-the-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohort 21 Wants You to Join the Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth season of <a href=\"http:\/\/cohort21.com\/about-cohort-21\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cohort 21<\/a> is shaping up to be one of the best yet. With thirty independent schools across Ontario registered to be part of this year-long professional development, this season already boasts a wide range of expertise, insights, talents, and resources from across the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisontario.ca\" target=\"_blank\">CIS Ontario<\/a> map.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the year participants will experiment with new digital tools and pedagogy, engage in online and face-to-face discussion about 21<sup>st<\/sup> century curriculum and teacher training, conduct personal research and share findings by way of an action plan blog, and impact the development of ed-tech startups at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marsdd.com\" target=\"_blank\">one of the world\u2019s largest innovation hubs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/files\/2016\/10\/c21-2016.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-964\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/files\/2016\/10\/c21-2016-300x195.png\" alt=\"c21-2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/files\/2016\/10\/c21-2016-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/files\/2016\/10\/c21-2016-768x498.png 768w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/files\/2016\/10\/c21-2016-1024x664.png 1024w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/files\/2016\/10\/c21-2016-400x260.png 400w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/files\/2016\/10\/c21-2016.png 1954w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 960px) 75vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now in its fifth iteration, Cohort 21 is an established community of educators and administrators.\u00a0\u00a0 Member blogs and action plans not only invite readers into classrooms in real-time across the province but also capture the unique culture of our member schools and highlight teacher excellence for which our schools are known.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cohort 21\u2019s deep databank of best practices, research, tools, and partnerships can be accessed via multiple platforms. Follow the conversation this year on Twitter with #Cohort21. Blog posts can be accessed at\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/cohort21.com\/action-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cohort 21 blog archive<\/a>\u00a0as well as the CIS Ontario teacher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisontario.ca\/page.cfm?p=369\" target=\"_blank\">Job Search<\/a> page. Browse through Cohort 21\u2019s catalogue of projects and connect with industry experts on topics that range from makerspaces, redesigning PD, <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/2014\/10\/12\/open-badges-the-new-pathways-and-storytellers-in-education\/\" target=\"_blank\">badging and curriculum<\/a>, project-based learning, <a href=\"http:\/\/cohort21.com\/mikefarley\/\" target=\"_blank\">gamification<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/cohort21.com\/lesliemcbeth\/2016\/05\/31\/my-next-big-adventure-future-design-school\/\" target=\"_blank\">design thinking<\/a>, to name just a few.<\/p>\n<p>Join the conversation. \u00a0We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth season of Cohort 21 is shaping up to be one of the best yet. With thirty independent schools across Ontario registered to be part of this year-long professional development, this season already boasts a wide range of expertise, insights, talents, and resources from across the CIS Ontario map. Over the course of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/2016\/10\/01\/cohort-21-wants-you-to-join-the-conversation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cohort 21 Wants You to Join the Conversation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cohort-21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/shelleythomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}