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November 28, 2006

Philadelphia Teachers' Learning Cooperative

TLC has been meeting every Thursday since 1978. We originally started when funding for The Advisory Center, a teachers' center, was withdrawn by the School DIstrict of Philadelphia. A group of teachers had been discussing educational issues over dinner at the Center on Thursdays after we finished making curriculum materials or attending workshops after school. We found those discussions valuable to our practice, and we wanted to continue to meet. We did not want to have to worry about funding. Many of the founding members had attended seminars with Patricia Carini, Corinne Bigss, Jessica Howard, and other staff at the Prospect School, and we decided to focus our meetings on children and classrooms, using the Descriptive Review processes developed at Prospect.

Our meetings are usually held in participants' homes. Every meeting is open to anyone who wishes to come. Before meetings, we engage in informal discussion and enjoy refreshments provided by the host. The meeting itself is quite formal. Participants take turns presenting and chairing. We hold a planning meeting every six weeks to figure out each week's focus and then send out the schedule which includes topics, presenters, chairs, and addresses for the meetings. We welcome visitors at our meetings.

Posted by mhimley at November 28, 2006 2:44 PM

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Just checking in! I'll pass this url on to others as a way to find this schedule and other things to chew on, Christina

Posted by: Christina Puntel at October 27, 2006 10:32 PM

Hi, I'm an Australian elementary principal looking to extend my professional network while visiting Burlington NJ from 27 Dec to 20 Jan and found your site while doing some surfing to see if I could find some teacher workshops/ seminars in the Philadelphia area. What you have going sounds fascinating and I hope it is not inappropriate of me to ask for your ideas for professionally stimulating stuff in you area. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks and best wishes for your program, Phillip Vonthien Principal Walkerston State School PO Box 288 Walkerston Queensland 4751 AUSTRALIA Ph (07) 4959 2220 (W) (07) 4954 3554 (H) Fax (07)4965 3812

Posted by: Phillip Vonthien at December 5, 2006 7:29 AM

The Philadelphia Teachers' Learning Cooperative welcomes educators and parents to our weekly meetings. You can contact Betsy Wice, whose e-mail address is on the schedule above, for more information.

Posted by: Lynne Strieb at December 5, 2006 11:00 PM