Ashley Pesch's Blog

  Are things private anymore? Internet privacy is always a hot topic. People have strong opinions if your social media accounts should be public or private. I remember my college professors would lecture us about making sure all our social media accounts were private. They would say as an educator families shouldn’t be able to see your accounts and potential employers shouldn’t either. They would give us ideas to remove our last names from social media and replace it with our middle names to make it more difficult to find us. To this day I still have my accounts set to private without my last name. However, how private is that still?  There is also way more to privacy than someone just finding you on the internet. What about the website itself? My friends and I always talk about how our phones must be listening to us. I find myself talking about something and then there is a Facebook ad about it!  We question how much privacy do we really have? I think learning about inte...

The Community Module Professional Learning what....?      In education there are so many acronyms. PLC, PD, PLN, and hundreds more. When I saw the acronym PLN, I certainly thought "oh a PLN! This has to be like a PLC, Professional Learning Community." In some aspects Professional Learning Communities  and Professional Learning Networks are similar, however they are also definitely different. A PLC or Professional Learning Community is a group of teachers that meet on a regular basis and work collaboratively. In my grade level PLC, we collaborate on lesson plans, student learning targets, review data, and things that pertain to our specific grade level and its content. We sometimes have different coaches or specialists join our meeting.  In my experience, every school uses Professional Learning Communities differently. What do PLCs look like in your school?      Once I started digging into Professional Learning Networks, I began to unders...

Image source: Personal Photos Hello! My name is Ashley Pesch! I am a fourth grade teacher in Mannheim District 83 as well as a cheerleading coach at Leyden High School. This is my fifth year teaching and second year coaching. Prior to teaching fourth grade, I taught fifth grade in Berwyn South for four years. During my time in Berwyn South I applied to be a part of a technology cohort called LEADE led by West40. In this cohort I learned about how to utilize technology to strengthen my instruction and student engagement. I worked with instructional coaches to implement new things. While in this cohort, I also shared with staff what I learned and was looked at as someone the staff could go to if they had a question or needed support with something technology related.  I have grown up with so many different social media platforms! Currently I use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Snapchat, Pinterest, and Tik Tok. I included the profile pictures of the accounts I use the most. I feel I h...