Conclusion - An Ethic of Excellence

Congratulations for reaching this milestone in the professional learning community by completing the book study of Ron Berger’s An Ethic of Excellence.  As we continue to work toward infusing Expeditionary Learning principles into your school, you will continue to reflect on the things you have read in this book.

Now that we have read and discussed Berger’s book, it is time to prepare to implement principles form An Ethic of Excellence at your school.  Please respond to the prompts below:

• What are some first steps in developing a "culture of craftsmanship" in your classroom and school?
• What are some stumbling blocks that we will need to overcome before the principles in “An Ethic of Excellence” can guide the development of the incubator school for Cabell County?

Welcome to the Pocahontas County ELS Project

This is an on-line professional learning community to support Hillsboro Elementary educators in exploring the potential of Expeditionary Learning (EL) principles for their school. The first step in learning about EL will be through an on-line book study of Ron Berger's "An Ethic of Excellence" book. Each week, an introductory video for each chapter of the Ron Berger book will be posted to this blog. Part of that video will ask each participant to consider possible implementation at Hillsboro Elementary. Participants will be asked to post comments to the video available on this blog. The on-line learning community for Expeditionary Learning will be guided by Dr. Stan Maynard of the June Harless Center. Questions to Dr. Maynard about this project can be submitted through a comment to this blog.


After viewing this video, please enter a comment on the blog indicating what your school may have in common with Cuba City High School and how we can work together to make the school more like it.
We also ask that you identify yourself and your teaching position (grade or subject and school) in your first blog entry.  In addition to your response to the prompt above, you are asked to comment on the responses of two other participants.
In order to qualify for a stipend, members of this book study project need to submit a reflection on each of the six blog posts and comment on the reflections of at least 2 participants for each of the six chapter posts.
As always, your comments and responses should be professional, positive and polite.  While it is certainly acceptable to disagree with the position or opinions of others, we must interact in respectful ways in our professional learning community.