…Charlotte VT, shared their journey towards authentic, meaningful, engaging project-based learning. The “Gold Standard” in project-based learning. At the 2019 Middle Grades Conference, they candidly talked about the successes and…
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…to launch service and project-based learning from! What do you think? How can we move our service and project-based learning into a more intentional strength-based and justice oriented experiences? …
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…Based Learning have also been mistakenly used interchangeably. The NewTech Network has create a nice graphic that helps show the difference. click to enlarge But why move to project-based learning?…
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…guide as to exactly how to structure a gallery walk around project-based learning. How do you help student reflect regularly in project based learning? What works for you? Or what…
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…The real difference that I can see with project-based learning and service learning is that project-based learning can be a simulation. It can be this court case that you’re acting…
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…relevant and authentic problem-solving task with scientific inquiry and communication outcomes. It’s Project-Based Learning at its best. What makes project-based learning useful for young adolescents? One of the keys of…
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…The Edge Academy at Essex Middle School, in Essex Junction VT, has been doing project-based learning alongside negotiated curriculum for the past six years. Facilitators Lindsey Halman and Phil Young…
Read more…project-based learning (PBL). Just look at these faces. Don’t they look excited and happy to be right where they are? Welcome back to Proctor VT Proctor Elementary School classroom teachers…
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Honor scholars with an authentic audience for their work The culminating event! It’s the lovely finish line of a Project-Based learning unit. The big event. You’ve been planning for months…
Read more…PBL unit Entry events for project-based learning Brainstorming and Research in PBL Scaffolds to support PBL learners 8 methods for reflection in project-based learning Assessment in Project-Based Learning Culminating Events…
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…that had our three kids rotating through hands-on work, learning apps, and ….(drumroll)….project time. While I continue to work full time, my husband took over all things kids and schooling….
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…were lucky enough to get to sit down with three groups of students at Essex Middle School’s Edge Academy just before the break and hear how their year-long project-based learning…
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…individual project interests based on these experiences. Based on this and the dotstorming work, students were placed into task forces to begin their Project for Hope. The project continues, with…
Read more…start small and make it manageable. Let’s break it down. Getting started with project-based learning and grades K-3 1. Use this template (please make a copy!) to create outline your…
Read moreHow do you explain PBL to families? The popularity of Project-Based Learning (PBL) has grown significantly with teachers and students, but what about parents? When students walk out of school,…
Read moreStart with the dramatic, unexpected & memorable Q: What do we really want from project-based learning? A: We want students to care about this subject. To really, truly care about…
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…your community gave students on their work. While your next PBL idea’s a-percolatin’, take time to reflect on these three key areas, and take project-based learning to the next level….
Read more…Vermont news station WCAX. During the project, students referred back to this experience frequently. It gave them several things important to successful project-based learning: real-world relevance examples of careers models…
Read more…families, inform your practice, and improve student learning. Formative Assessments These are assessments for along the way. They inform the teacher of the learning taking place and what supports may…
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…film and the series of novels. Stay with us on this. In the 2nd of our three-part series looking at project-based learning with The Edge team at Essex Middle School,…
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…the curriculum around project-based learning. This end-of-project reflection template shows how students set PLP goals at the beginning of the project and then provide evidence at the end of the…
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…digital music course as part of the school’s focus on project-based learning. Project-based learning is a type of personalized learning that fuses student passions with concrete actions in the world….
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…look really familiar, but there’s the project-based learning book, Power of the Adolescent Brain by Thomas Armstrong. It’s unbelievable, totally into the brain-based learning piece. Very inspiring when you think…
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…that involves using strategies and approaches around project-based learning, complements this idea of building peaks. The nature of project-based learning is that there’s some authenticity to the work, and hopefully…
Read more…Mark, Tarrant Institute, 2018 Culminating Events for Project-Based Learning, Katy Farber, 2017 When Students Share Their Work, It Deepens the Learning, Rachel Mark, Tarrant Institute, 2018 Chapter 8: PLPs, Goal-setting…
Read more…academic researchers, there are a wide range of benefits for students. What are your tips for doing service learning, project-based learning, or community-based learning? Please share your thoughts in the…
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…if you have a project, or project-based learning approach. Project-based learning final product at Cabot School: evidence of learning, research, reflection, growth, creativity during the project. Is the project at…
Read more…high-quality summative assessment look like in action? The crucial role of practice in a proficiency-based environment How can I design and implement summative assessments in project-based learning? Assessment in Project-Based…
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…ingredient: a personalized learning coordinator. As people in the education community know, there are four main flexible pathways for personalized learning in Vermont: work-based learning online learning dual enrollment and…
Read more…to work with those challenges. Erika collaborates with teachers, meets with teams, and works toward being proactive instead of reactive in planning, teaching, and supporting students. Project-based learning provides her…
Read more…in their learning journey. Proficiency-Based teaching and learning in Vermont: the who, why and how Winooski’s Graduate Proficiencies & Expectations How do you measure success with project based learning? …
Read more…project-based learning? 5 lessons learned from an integrated middle school PBL unit: Reflections from the Burke Town School Kick off project-based learning with a community event: Hope launches in the…
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…teachers personalize learning for students? Charlie Herzog, Flood Brook School. Studying how students talk about their experiences with project-based learning. Jon Brown, Lamoille Union Middle School. “Can project-based math yield…
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…grade teacher at Warren Elementary School, Warren VT convenes her Learning Lab Site-Based Team every Tuesday at lunch. The group provides on-going feedback about their project based learning in an…
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…it’s anti-racist teaching, whether it’s project-based learning, you know, the things that we know are so engaging and authentic for students. Do you have thoughts on how people can strike…
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…and that sort of version of pace based personalization that so many people equate personalized learning with, that there’s been this backlash around people fighting back against Summit Learning and…
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…Chrissy built digital structures to reinforce and expand on the community work. She created a unit that uses project-based learning structures to shape remote learning. She built the Connect Vermont…
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…and the field of education in general? The questions “How might students’ sense of personalization grow as they shift from doing projects to project-based learning?”*Charlie Herzog “How can school in…
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…with this check in. Here are a few tools that support collaboration in remote project-based learning: Online doc and slideshow comments and revision history (project ideas here) A collaborative Padlet…
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…third big project-based learning unit of the year, Leland & Gray teachers wanted students to “make a difference” in their community. Service learning was the perfect fit, and the K-12…
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…this project-based learning unit and were tasked to choose a social, political, or cultural revolution and explain “What is the influence of your revolution?” This provided context for the overarching…
Read more…and with greater shared purpose. Project exhibition for peers and parents culminating a project-based learning unit on endangered species. Pillar Three: Flexible pathways Flexible pathways are certainly present in the…
Read more…for reflection in project-based Learning I can create a feedback-rich environment in which learners are provided actionable feedback to guide their next steps toward proficiency. What are the keys to…
Read more…that. Please add your own in the comments and let us know what we’ve missed! Project-based learning In Project-based learning, students identify a question they want to answer and then…
Read moreBuild a community to support project-based learning I bet you have big dreams of creative, innovative projects and engaged students in your classroom. Students who are busy researching, collaborating, creating,…
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…bit of planning and pivoting. So, rewind! What are culminating events? They’re the lovely finish line of a project-based learning unit. They celebrate the projects and the learning in an…
Read more…let us off the leash, into a fenced field, where we could lead the way.” How could you help your students tell the story of their project-based learning? Save…
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How do project-based learning and makerspaces fit together? Making and PBL may look like two completely different educational movements, but in reality they work well together and each strengthens the…
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…easier for me to end it. No, I’m not ready to end it. The reason is I haven’t done project-based learning right. I haven’t personalized it enough. I trapped myself….
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…easier for me to end it. No, I’m not ready to end it. The reason is I haven’t done project-based learning right. I haven’t personalized it enough. I trapped myself….
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…structures for project time that might be helpful in your classrooms as you plan and led a dynamic project based or service learning environment with students. 60 minute block plan:…
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…when I have choice in a class and usually project-based. When I talk about things that have really stuck with me, a lot of them I have from one class…
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…approach — place-based education — it helps you build muscles that you can then really take with you wherever you go, that you are learning. You’re not just developing a…
Read more…engaging students in learning that is inquiry-based, personally relevant, and connected to the local and global community. Why it’s important: The reason America’s schoolchildren are not learning what we want…
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…looks like in a learning environment where access to resources is ubiquitous, where learning can and does take place anytime, anywhere. That is why when Lisa Nielsen’s Learning without Teachers,…
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…structures that support learning, but also that protocols are their own learning. Terra: Yes. Protocols and student agency Jeanie: That learning to do the protocol also teaches you these other…
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http://www.uvm.edu/tiie/podcasts/great_brianeno_caper.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | RSS Wondering how to blend project-based learning with STEAM?…
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…designed and built their own working maple sugar house, on school grounds. And that was only the beginning. We used project-based learning in the most student-centered way. Students took hands-on…
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…“Project-Based Learning cycles.” Teachers are being put in a tough situation right now (understatement of the century, I know). You’re being asked to put relationships and connection first while developing…
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…term is to familiarize students with project-based learning by modeling what it is like to do a high quality project. Students from both advisories got to select one of the…
Read more…engaging learning opportunities. Why “June Term”? Curriculum is the vehicle to teach transferable skills; Project-Based Learning allows students to explore interests using transferable skills. It promotes persistence and development of…
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…makerspace? Did you know that you can use your makerspace for instructional shifts? This includes shifts to: project-based learning; more constructivist learning; learner-centered learning; more student voice and choice; universal…
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…that could be shown as exemplars during launches. Most teachers shared their own products and stories as a way to connect with and inspire students. Like any high quality project-based…
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