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Lifelong learning requires effort. Collaboration as a method of learning has been a fabric of education for years. With today’s technology, our ability to connect is limitless. With an openness to learn, anyone can begin to expand their knowledge by being part of a Professional Learning Network. A PLN is a mindset; it is not a one-shot association. When managed well, these connections can help educational leaders innovate in their classrooms, schools, and beyond to improve student outcomes. Power of Connections is an opportunity to take your professional relationships to the next level. This book will empower your growth by putting your personalized professional development ideas into your own hands. This book is about the IMPACT – Inspiration, Meaningful, Passionate, Authentic, Care, Today & Tomorrow – connecting with others will have on you. These IMPACT components are the heart of connecting and it is the impact itself that proves just how powerful these connections can be.

Education is a long standing institution filled with rules, regulations, and policies that have been in place since schooling began. These rules, regulations, and policies filter their way down into our schools. They shape our classrooms, our programs, and ultimately our students. They have great power and influence and can create educators who feel they are just cogs in a wheel of the status quo. But educators are faced with the challenge of meeting the individual needs of those they lead in a world that quite literally changes overnight. To meet these needs we must challenge the way things have always been done because growth requires change. With that growth and change comes risk taking and failure. And so, creating change requires disruption; Disruption of what it means to be an educator; Disruption of what it means to be a leader; Disruption of a system that defines failure as an end point, not a beginning.