Students are creating narrated, curated and portable evidence of their work Back in November, a group of educators from Harwood Middle School, in Mooretown VT, headed down to the iPad…
Read more…Harwood Union Middle School. Ibson challenged his students to write their own “hero’s journeys” using the iBooks Author software. By taking ownership of the Hero’s Journey narrative, students are encouraged…
Read moreSusan Hennessey, with the help of videographers from Hen House Media, sat down to talk with one of Harwood’s middle grades students about improved technology integration at the school. Traveled…
Read more
…six of her students at Harwood Union High School, in Moretown VT. In this workshop, Katherine Cadwell and her students shared their experiences addressing the specific challenges of planning for…
Read more…stuff. Maya: I think there were a lot of teachers from Harwood so they knew most of what was going on at Harwood. And there were some from Crossett Brook,…
Read more
…Committee (ROC) chapter of Harwood Union High School. ROC is a student-led socially justice oriented organization based in Vermont with a presence in several secondary schools. ROC focuses on grassroots…
Read moreAddressing student mastery and learning targets in an LMS Kristi McKnight, a 9th grade teacher at Harwood Union High School in Moretown, Vermont, shares how she and her teaching partner,…
Read more
…to the same reason for addressing controversial issues in the classroom: for the sake of our democracy. Kathy Cadwell, a philosophy and history teacher at Harwood High School in Duxbury,…
Read moreAn augmented reality periodic table One of our partner educators, Brian Wagner, teaches eighth grade science at Harwood Union Middle School, in Moretown VT. This past spring, he used Aurasma…
Read more…welcome emphasis on the role of families and communities in the PLP process: Harwood Union Middle School has visualized students’ personalized learning with The Harwood Graduate tree. Read principal Amy…
Read moreThe technology cannot thwart us, it can only make us stronger I talk with my hands. As many of you are aware, I was out at Harwood Union High School…
Read more
Goal-setting as a process This presentation, delivered by Harwood Union High School teacher Lissa Fox at the 2016 Middle Grades Conference, describes an Action Research project that looked at the…
Read more…Diana Gonzalez, Vermont Legislature, University of Vermont Education Dept. Lindsey Halman, Essex Middle School, Essex VT Jonah Ibson, Harwood Union Middle School, Moretown, VT Supanya Khienjarern, Bangkok Christian College, Bangkok,…
Read more…Voice in School-Level Change at Harwood Union High School (Video) – A video overview of student involvement in school-level change at Harwood Union High School …
Read moreA guest post by one of our partner educators, Jacki McCarty. McCarty is an educator at Harwood Union Middle School, in Moretown VT. “The resource I wish to share is…
Read more…responsible Facebook use. Other schools in Vermont that have shared their resources for going 1:1 with iPads include Burlington School District, Harwood Union Middle School and Peoples Academy Middle Level….
Read moreA brief but effective demonstration of how to use iMovie to construct a poem recital video, courtesy a student at Harwood Union Middle School. Enjoy! …
Read moreA middle-schooler from Harwood explains how they’re using Explain Everything for a class project to capture stills and videos….
Read more…you how to create your own auras in Aurasma, and talk about how Aurasma’s being used by a science teacher at Harwood Union Middle School, one of our partner schools….
Read more…have collected on the Explain Everything app as a guide. — Brian Wagner teaches 8th grade science at Harwood Union Middle School in Moretown VT. You can reach him…
Read moreA 1-minute iPad how-to from Harwood Union Middle School science educator Brian Wagner, showing you how to save augmented reality “auras” from the popular mobile app Aurasma, to Evernote. …
Read more…Everything: Harwood Union Middle School students used Explain Everything to make short how-to videos for iMovie and Google Drive for their peers (bonus ourobouros points for hitting iMovie inside another…
Read more
…to take the cheek-cell-Notability challenge and are willing to share your experience with Mrs. Spencer’s class at Harwood (Skype! G+ Hangout!, Facetime!, just a blog post!) please get in touch….
Read moreA tale of how physics can be successfully essayed on. How one class of 8th grade scientists at Harwood Union Middle School used Google Docs, Schoology, and iPads to capture…
Read more
Because 102 years of Girl Scouts can’t be wrong New this morning on the blog, Harwood Union Middle School math educator Lisa Therrien discusses how she and her students are…
Read more…PLPs. Schools in attendance included Tarrant Institute partner school Harwood Union High, Northfield High School, Randolph High School, Crossett Brook Middle School and Montpelier High School. The educators at this…
Read more…of Learning Management Systems in 1:1 Classrooms Susan Hennessey and Kristi McKnight, a 9th grade teacher from Harwood Union High School, kicked things off with a session on the effective…
Read more…to shift responsibility for updating the calendars from the teachers to the students. 4. Mailchimp At Harwood Union Middle School in Moretown, Vermont, the 7th grade team generates a weekly…
Read more
…the beginning and end of the school year. The conversations are really a chance for students to explain who they are as learners. Here, a student at Harwood Union Middle…
Read more…grade teacher from Harwood Union Middle School in Moretown Vermont, put together an exhaustive tour as to how he and his team uses Schoology in the school’s 1:1 iPad-based environment….
Read more…in the hands of students Here is an example of Harwood Union Middle School students using the Voice Record Pro app to create a Public Service Announcement about Vermont’s Act…
Read more…Rex and Jean Berthiaume (Harwood Union Middle and Fayston Elementary Schools, respectively) facilitated a rich discussion after the showing of the movie. We got to see teachers and students immersed…
Read more…fun way. Here’s an example from Harwood Union Middle School in Duxbury, Vermont, where students were asked to create a scale related to something that they enjoy and are really…
Read more
…grade educators at Harwood Union Middle School, in Duxbury Vermont, describe how they helped their students visualize proficiency by creating conceptual models. What they did: “As a team we thought…
Read more…organization: Schoology Jonah Ibson, a 9th grade teacher from Harwood Union Middle School in Moretown VT, put together an exhaustive tour as to how he and his team uses Schoology…
Read more
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS
…next section in your book. Where you talk about the relationships between protocols and other structures. In Vermont, we have these wonderful students at Harwood Union High School who teach…
Read more
…that could be shared with the teacher. They paused, thoughtful. A few of them shared what they were thinking. Then we showed this video from Harwood Union School and asked…
Read more
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS
…this regard. It’s a problem that I could be a student at Harwood Union High School who really liked and did well in his English classes and then go off…
Read more
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS
…Tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do. Life: So, my name is Life. I live in South Duxbury VT, right near Harwood High School…
Read more
…a key goal of CRP. As Kathy Cadwell, a philosophy and history teacher at Harwood High School in Duxbury, put it: “Dialogue is the heart of democracy. Civil discourse is…
Read more
…and guidelines that you can share and use with your school faculty and team. Some of these I gathered from this workshop by Kathy Cadwell and her Harwood students in…
Read more
…from a community conversations about race by Life LeGeros Students at Harwood Union High School partnered with community members to facilitate a community conversation about the name of a primary…
Read more…Learning for the Future. Before becoming part of the Tarrant team, Susan was a Library Media Specialist and former English teacher and English Department Chair at Harwood Union Middle High…
Read more…Learning Lab VT Sarah Marcus, Kyle Chadburn, Bill Rich & Susan Hennessey Recording Facilitating Healthy & Respectful Conversations (Online & Off) Kathy Cadwell, students from Harwood Union High School (Moretown…
Read more
…Harwood Union High School partnered with community members to facilitate a community conversation about the name of a primary school in the district. Podcast episodes (and transcripts) about Community…
Read more