We have Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) at our school. The biggest challenge with PLCs is that teachers and administrators need time to be able to meet with their PLC, look at data, and actually make plans to use the data to change things at school (implementation/setting Smart Goals...
Nifty-Chicken is the co-author of a new book about raising chickens. It was just announced this past week. Here's a link to a thread about it on BYC:
http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=220713
Great idea!
I taught myself to knit using videos from the Internet about four years ago. I haven't made anything very impressive, but it's a fun skill to have.