Courtney Elliott’s Bright Spots and Belly Flops
…life skills through this model. This leads us to the bright spots… those days when I feel like a rockstar educator. These moments come from my students and their ability…
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Bright spots and belly flops
…similar to IBM, Microsoft, Harvard, Northwestern, NC State, and numerous other businesses. The reaction and agency I was hoping for. What actually happened. Bright spots: I tend to be pretty…
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Sam Nelson’s Bright Spots & Belly Flops
…I probably spoke for about six minutes total), as well as some Twitter hype from the day. What are the bright spots? The biggest thing I’ve been really happy about…
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Tom Drake’s Bright Spots & Belly Flops
Without question a big #highfive goes out to the opening of classroom and school doors through visiting other schools and having other schools visit Crossett Brook and Team Quest. Professional…
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Corey Smith’s Bright Spot Belly Flops
…addition. Bright Spots I decided that I was not expecting too much of my students. They are 3rd graders after all and they are capable of so many incredible things….
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Jon Brown’s Learning Lab Lessons Learned
Bright Spots: They say imitation is the highest form of flattery… I guess I’m flattered. It never ceases to amaze me how humorous middle school students are by accident, and…
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…grades 3 and 4 at Proctor Elementary School positively impact student engagement and achievement?” Learning Lab reflections: Courtney’s Bright Spots & Belly Flops Corey’s Bright Spots & Belly Flops …
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Fractions, Llamas, Self-Directed Learning
…in the learn, assess and relearn cycle? There seems to be a chronic desire for me to spoon-feed them information. Bright Spots: Students were forced to confront the fact…
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Welcome to Learning Lab VT
…state of Vermont. All of our learners make Bright Spots & Belly Flops blogposts to formatively tell the story of their findings, and all of our learners choose contribute to…
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The role of students in the Learning Lab
…hit the road. Powerful learning is happening all over Vermont. Join a Learning Lab VT team and explore the bright spots and belly flops of personalized learning in action. How…
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Meet Learning Lab VT 2019!
…network’s success and struggles, what we call our bright spots and our belly flops. Learning Lab VT inspires Vermont educators to work together, pursuing the promise of Act 77 together…
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Takin’ a ride with Alpha 5
As an instructional coach, I want to push myself on the fact that I rarely take the time to celebrate “bright spots”. I’m definitely the type that can find a…
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A moment of collective efficacy
…Faculty meeting started as usual. Announcements, Bright Spots and Belly Flops. etc… Shout out to Learning Lab for that one. Full presentation here We started with one simple question. Would…
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Why PD in a pandemic?
…state Powerful professional development emphasizes collaboration by asking teachers to share their ideas, practices, and results in a way that’s informative and low risk. For instance, Bright Spots and Belly…
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#vted Reads: All-American Muslim Girl
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…YA books of all time. You’re mentioning all my bright spots story and all seemed to be about reclaiming your full self. Jory: Yes, or Yes, even if, or even…
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The Annual TIIE Winter Reading Round Up
…should beckon us to find warm and bright spots within our homes. For many of us at TIIE, that means getting into your favorite chair and curling up with something…
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Introducing our Equity Toolkit
…audit by Flood Brook Middle School Middle school students created “bar graphs” by stacking books in different categories. They analyzed the data and developed insightful takeaways. Bright spots and belly…
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…to the systemic capacity building underway across all our schools and the state of Vermont. All of our learners make Bright Spots & Belly Flops blogposts to formatively tell the…
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…3 and 4 at Proctor Elementary School positively impact student engagement and achievement? Presentation Slides Bright Spots & Belly Flops PlatyPodcast Episode 1: What isn’t working in the classroom and…
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Equity toolkit
…developed insightful takeaways. Bright spots and belly flops by Sam Nelson Sam Nelson reflects on his inquiry question “How can students use social justice as a lens for designing curriculum?”…
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#vted Reads: Troublemakers with Mike Martin
In this episode of #vted Reads, we talk with South Burlington curriculum coordinator Mike Martin,about Troublemakers, a book by Carla Shalaby. We touch on what we're really doing when we ask our students to code-switch, Black Lives Matter, and the trouble with classroom norms, and we pose the question: 'How do school systems bestow unearned privilege on some, and un-earned hardship, on others?' Oh, and we talk about Harry Potter. Naturally.
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…out because she’s bright and bubbly and loud and she doesn’t conform to gender norms. So it’s painful for her. School is painful for her. Mike: Such a great point….
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#vted Reads: Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades, with Penny Bishop
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…somewhere. And then he finally spots the teacher sitting on the floor in the corner working with one student. It reminds me that, as somebody who likes order, that when…
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