Jeanie Phillips, Author at Innovation: Education

On The Come Up: guest Marley Evans, left, with host Jeanie Phillips.

#vted Reads: On The Come Up

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments Angie Thomas, Charlotte Central School, equity, Marley Evans, Mississippi, systemic racism, trauma-informed education

Hoo boy, we have a CORKER of an episode for you today, with On The Come Up, by Angie Thomas.

Jeanie Philips (l) and Sarah Birgé, with a copy of Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories, by Kelly Barnhill

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#vted Reads: Dreadful Young Ladies, with Sarah Birgé

October 10, 2019October 10, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments "Mrs. Sorenson and the Sasquatch", "Open the Door and Light Pours Through", "The Insect and the Astronomer: A Love Story", Anne of Green Gables, Kelly Barnhill, Mary Downing Hahn, reading, Sarah Birgé, short stories, teaching literature, The Graveyard Book

Listeners: how do you talk to your students about the special love that exists between a woman and a Sasquatch?

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Jeanie Phillips (l) & Thierry Uwilingiyimana with Place-Based Curriculum Design, by Amy Demarest

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#vted Reads: Place-Based Curriculum Design

October 2, 2019October 11, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 4 Comments Amy Demarest, equity, Paulo Freire, place-based learning, Ruja Benjamin, Thierry Uwilingiyimana, Winooski Middle School

This episode is all. About. QUESTIONS. Why are we here? Who was here before us? What kinds of stories do

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#vted Reads: The Benefits of Being an Octopus

September 18, 2019October 1, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 2 Comments Ann Braden, Corey Smith, equity, Equity Literacy Framework, poverty, the benefits of being an octopus

This one goes deep, folks. On this episode educator Corey Smith joins me to talk about The Benefits of Being

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#vted Reads: Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades, with Penny Bishop

September 4, 2019September 4, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments

HELLO! I’m Jeanie Phillips and welcome back to vted Reads! We’re kicking off our second season of the podcast with

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Host Jeanie Phillips with guest Abby Bunting and a copy of Watch Us Rise.

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#vted Reads: Watch Us Rise

June 12, 2019September 4, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 1 Comment art, artivists, Ellen Hagan, non-violent resistance, Renée Watson

with 6th grader Abby Bunting As we close out the first season of #vted Reads, we celebrate another first: our

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Using protocols for equity

June 7, 2019June 7, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 2 Comments equity, norms, School Reform Initiative, TIIE dogs

Tools for tough talks So, maybe you’ve been using protocols at faculty meetings or professional learning community sessions. Perhaps you’ve

Host Jeanie Phillips, left, with guest Annie Brabazon, right and a copy of No Fixed Address.

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#vted Reads: No Fixed Address with Annie Brabazon

May 29, 2019May 29, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments Annie Brabazon, dcf awards, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, equity, homelessness in fiction, housing insecurity, poverty

Reader, today we’re going to talk toilets. Now, not in a weird way or a gross way, but because they’re

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#vted Reads: We Got This, with Kathleen Brinegar

May 15, 2019June 4, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 1 Comment action research, colonization, Cornelius Minor, equity, Kathleen Brinegar, pre-service educators, teacher-educators

Cornelius Minor likes to ask himself three key questions. One: what are his students trying to tell him? Two: What

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#vted Reads: Pride with Meg Allison

May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments Easter eggs, empathy, gentrification, Ibi Zoboi, Pride and Prejudice, race, spoken word poetry

What does Jane Austen have to do with a Drake mixtape? For this episode, I was joined by Vermont rockstar

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Nevermind the physics: it’s all about collaboration

April 22, 2019April 25, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments Green Mountain Union High School, Leland & Gray Union Middle & High School, math, physics, projectile launchers, The Dorset School, transferable skills, trigonometry

Battle Physics hosts first multi-school tournament That is just what Allan Garvin and Becky Bushey did to raise the stakes

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#vted Reads: The Power of Moments, with Rachel Mark

April 17, 2019April 17, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments Heath Brothers, meaning, mindfulness, reflection

Thank you for joining us for another episode of #vted Reads. This time we will be discussing The Power of

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#vted Reads: Hey, Kiddo with Mike Hill

April 3, 2019April 3, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments addiction, art, Burlington High School, childhood trauma, grandparents, graphic novels, Jarrett Krosoczka, Mike Hill, nontraditional families, substance abuse

Welcome back to #vted Reads! In this episode, we’re talking about the comic memoir Hey, Kiddo. As we discuss Jarrett

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#vted Reads: Protocols in the Classroom, with Terra Lynch

March 15, 2019March 21, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments behavioral norms, democratic classroom, norms, protocols, Terra Lynch

Welcome back to #vted Reads! Now, I recorded this episode back in September out in San Antonio, at the School

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#vted Reads: The 57 Bus with Caitlin Classen

March 6, 2019March 6, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments Albert D. Lawton Intermediate School, Caitlin Classen, Dashka Slater, equity, narrative nonfiction, poverty, restorative justice, social justice, The 57 Bus, violence in a community

In this episode of #vted Reads, we talk about the 57 Bus by Dashka Slater. Based on a real-life incident,

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#vted Reads: Troublemakers with Mike Martin

February 20, 2019February 21, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments classism, code-switching, culturally responsive pedagogy, Mike Martin, Troublemakers

In this episode of #vted Reads, we talk about Troublemakers, a book by Carla Shalaby. We touch on what we’re

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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#vted Reads: Orbiting Jupiter, with Stacy Raphael

February 8, 2019February 7, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments bias, equity, Gary Schmidt, Orbiting Jupiter

First, what is #vted Reads? Big news, listeners! #vted Reads has spun off from The 21st Century Classroom and

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Get started podcasting with students

February 6, 2019February 6, 2019 Jeanie Phillips, Audrey Homan 0 Comments digital storytelling, podbox, podcasting, podcasting on an iPad1

New to podcasts? Listen to a few! Before you jump into creating a podcast, get familiar with the format. Here

Ruthie's student-led conference at Leland and Gray

Stories from VT Students Student-Led Conferences

Student-led conferences come to Leland & Gray

January 11, 2019January 11, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments Leland & Gray Union Middle & High School

Change is hard! And changing a school procedure that has been the same forever is even harder! Leland and Gray

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Check, Please! #Hockey with Peter Langella

December 18, 2018February 7, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments #vted Reads, hockey, LGBT, Ngozi Ukazu

Reading and discussing graphic novels OMG Check Please! Librarian Jeanie Phillips talks graphic novels with Peter Langella, Vermont librarian, educator

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Service Learning Teaming The 21st Century Classroom

All about service learning

November 28, 2018February 26, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments Leland & Gray Union Middle & High School, The Cabot School

with Katy Farber From real and relevant to what to do in the event of a mountain bike accident, the

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Goal-setting Teaming The 21st Century Classroom

“The Culture Code”, with Bill Rich

September 25, 2018February 26, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments Bill Rich, Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code

Why do certain groups add up to be greater than the sum of their parts? In this episode of our

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Service Learning

How to plan a service learning project in 5 stages

June 20, 2018September 10, 2018 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments Leland & Gray Union Middle & High School

Leland & Gray lead the way Leland & Gray Union Middle and High School, in Townshend, VT, used a popular

Project-Based Learning Real World PBL

Evolving student roles in a big (BIG) PBL project

June 15, 2018October 1, 2018 Jeanie Phillips 1 Comment The Dorset School

As Dorset’s coop dreams became a reality, students gathered new skills What does it look like to break one enormous project

Community-based learning Stories from VT Students

How to create empathy with your community

June 13, 2018September 19, 2018 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments empathy, Manchester Elementary-Middle School

Meet the Compassionate Faces of the Shires How do your students recognize compassion? Do they recognize it in the faces

Proficiency-Based Learning Stories from VT Students

Battle Physics at Green Mountain Union High School

May 4, 2018September 26, 2018 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments Green Mountain Union High School, multi-age teaming, multi-grade teaming, physics, STEM

Come for the math, stay for the slingshots! Green Mountain 7th graders and HS physics students apply math and science to

Real World PBL Stories from VT Students

Should Vermont host the next Olympics?

March 23, 2018September 19, 2018 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments civics, Manchester Elementary-Middle School, Olympic games, Olympics, school board presentations, select board, selectboard

Manchester’s 6th graders weigh in… to their Selectboard. Teams of 6th-grade students from Manchester Elementary Middle School researched this question