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Burke students share their learning with district leaders How many school board meetings have you sat through where the only
Read moreBurke students share their learning with district leaders How many school board meetings have you sat through where the only
Read moreChange is hard! And changing a school procedure that has been the same forever is even harder! Leland and Gray
Read morePeoples Academy Middle Level shares their action research “It’s getting personal”. Peoples Academy Middle Level teachers discuss how they’ve created
Read moreHow Passion Projects can fire up a student-led conference Julia is a student at Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, in
Read moreLeland & Gray students take on a school community makeover At Leland & Gray Union Middle High School, students decided
Read moreHow do you get fresh eggs on a school menu? Students at The Dorset School, in Dorset VT, did
Read moreWelcome to the Best Part of My Week And yours, likely. Peoples Academy Middle Level educator Joe Speers shares how
Read moreMeet the Compassionate Faces of the Shires How do your students recognize compassion? Do they recognize it in the faces
Read moreMaking time for making at Ottauquechee STEAM — Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics — gives students the opportunity to
Read moreBeyond the Passion Project: Clara wanted to do something amazing for her final Brainado project. She wanted to push herself
Read moreCome for the math, stay for the slingshots! Green Mountain 7th graders and HS physics students apply math and science to
Read moreMeet the Humans of Burke So many schools operate in isolation from the very communities they are situated in. Do
Read moreProviding an arena for powerful family feedback School exhibitions take work. They take work to organize, schedule, promote and pull
Read moreTED Talks are short, personal powerful storytelling. Now: how can students use this medium as motivation to learn, to explore
Read moreManchester’s 6th graders weigh in… to their Selectboard. Teams of 6th-grade students from Manchester Elementary Middle School researched this question
Read moreA Vermont tradition comes to the classroom Town Meeting Day is a Vermont tradition: once a year, everyone in towns
Read moreApplying NGSS to… chickens? At the Dorset School, in Dorset VT, the 8th graders know that fresh, farm-raised eggs taste
Read moreTake student learning outside Students at Green Mountain Union High School demonstrate learning in Science, Social Studies, Health, and Language
Read moreA trio of Tuttle 6th graders led educators from around Vermont through activities in bias-awareness and social identity at the
Read more#gamechanger The growing trend of increasing student voice and choice in schools is opening authentic opportunities for dialogues between students
Read moreDoes your community know you as a learner? Flood Brook School buzzed with excitement. Students brought in their projects on
Read moreA new recipe for Personalized Learning Plans Rather than trying to get students to care about existing PLPs, some schools
Read morePhysical aspects of a student-centered classroom Sometimes what seems like a little change can make a big difference. That’s what
Read moreHow did an 8th grader turn his passion project into a summer job? I found Connor in the tech ed
Read moreIt all starts with an idea. Races Against Racism have taken place around the country, and last spring, a community
Read moreMaking math real-world relevant Would you tell the school board how to redesign your school? Students at Shelburne Community School,
Read moreSeeing failure as iteration A trio of students at Crossett Brook Middle School, in Duxbury VT, have spent the past
Read moreProctor’s STEAM Family Night The sleepy little town of Proctor VT, is making some big waves when it comes to
Read moreHonor scholars with an authentic audience for their work The culminating event! It’s the lovely finish line of a Project-Based
Read more8th grade scientists tackle carbon emissions at a busy traffic circle This past year, Shelburne Community School middle grades students
Read moreStudent-created virtual park tours With access to online and tablet-based tools for digital curation and content creation, students can research
Read moreBe your own Hero Using the free iOS Shadow Puppet app, I created this brief look at an amazing unit
Read moreConcept to reality with Edmunds Middle School makerspace Hear from a group of 6th grade engineers who got to use
Read moreNew cool tool for flipped classrooms and personalized learning Check out this great resource for differentiation and the flipped classroom:
Read moreBecause 102 years of Girl Scouts can’t be wrong New this morning on the blog, Harwood Union Middle School math
Read moreMeet the digital anthropologists of Cabot, Vermont In fulfillment of their project-based learning research this past spring, this pair of
Read moreHow one class of 8th grade scientists at Harwood Union Middle School used Google Docs, Schoology, and iPads to capture
Read moreThis spring, Nancy Spencer and her class discovered something amazing about their cheek cells. The students discovered that by placing
Read moreAs part of their celebration of Digital Learning Day, students at Edmunds Middle School hosted a “speed-geeking” session: they each
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