Happy Summer Reading!
We at the Tarrant Institute look forward to summer reading every year, but THIS year… this year we all deserve
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Author: Jeanie Phillips
#vted Reads: The Last Cuentista
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Lovely listeners, welcome back. I’m Jeanie Phillips, and on this episode, I get to talk about “The Last Cuentista”, a
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#VTED Reads: Care Work with Dr. Winnie Looby
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Welcome, listeners, to another episode of vted Reads: talking about books by, for, and with Vermont educators. In this episode…
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#vted Reads: The Other Talk
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Jeanie: In this episode, I sit down with educational phenoms Christie Nold and Jess Lifshitz. And we’re joined by Brendan
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Strategies for Fostering Student Collaboration
I’ve had to work really hard to learn how to collaborate. Yet, my K-12 teachers always gave me A’s on
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#vted Reads: Community Schools Blueprint with Kathleen Kesson
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In this episode, we welcome author, educator, and Vermont transplant Kathleen Kesson who talks about Community Schools Blueprint: Transforming Our School Community Partnership. Kathleen and I talk about the possibilities we see for widening the cracks in traditional schooling by building opportunities for students and communities to support one another in authentic, real-world ways.
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#vted Reads: Dig
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Listeners, I’m going to ask you to bear with me on this one. This is one of my favorite episodes
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#vted Reads: Start Here Start Now
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Lovely listeners: today is a work day.Now, we all know that talking about anti-bias work is a vital component of
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#vted Reads: We Contain Multitudes
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Lovely listeners: we’re baaaaaaack! And we missed each and every one of you. To celebrate our return, in this episode
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Care and Feeding of the PLP
Take a moment to think about a learning experience that was meaningful to your students. How do you know that
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Transferable Skill Deep Dive: Fostering communication
What do you see when you look at this picture? (For real, I’m not being sarcastic, what do you see?)
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Student-centered personalized learning starts with identity
“Be yourself; everyone else is taken.” That. Quote. Drives. Me. Nuts. I mean, duh! And of course! And who else
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Exploring Identity with 4th and 5th Graders
Margaret Dunne, a fourth and fifth-grade educator at Mount Holly School in Mount Holly VT, originally presented “Exploring Identity with
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#vted Reads: with Bill Rich
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Back on the show: it’s Bill Rich! But first: Lovely listeners, a few episodes ago, we turned fifty. Fifty! Can
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vted Reads picture books!
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Listeners! Today I’m joined by Jaida and Emma, two marvelous students from Southern Vermont, and the three of us share
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#vted Reads: Flight of the Puffin
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On this episode… we have Ann Braden!!!! Ann is one of my favorite authors, and she’s also a former Vermont
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#vted Reads with Jess Lifshitz
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Chicago-based educator and twitter wunderkind Jess Lifshitz joins Jeanie on the podcast to talk about Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s seminal text
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Culturally Responsive Instruction and Assessment
At their heart, Culturally Responsive Practices (CRP) are about teaching the way students learn. It is an unfortunate truth of
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#vted Reads: with Alex Shevrin Venet
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Today on the podcast, Alex Shevrin Venet joins us to talk about her new book, Equity-Centered, Trauma-Informed Education. How does
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#vted Reads: The Shape of Thunder
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Oh lovely listeners, we are all still here, and we are all noticing the change of the seasons. This year
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#vted Reads: Brave Like That
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Are you wear-your-mask-in-a-pandemic brave, listeners? Or get-vaccinated-when-needles-scare-you brave? On this episode of the podcast, we’re joined by Vermont author and
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#vted Reads: The Successful Middle School
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We’re here to talk books for educators, by educators and with educators. Today I’m with Dr. Penny Bishop and we’ll
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The Culturally Responsive Learning Environment
Imagine a place where every person can be their authentic whole human selves. A culturally responsive learning environment is
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#vted Reads about Equity & Cultural Responsiveness in the Middle Grades
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In January 2020, the Vermont state legislature proposed a resolution formally apologizing for the legislature’s role in passing a 1931
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#vted Reads: All-American Muslim Girl
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Are you there, #vted? It’s me, Jeanie. On this episode of the podcast, we’re re-joined by one of the very
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#vted Reads: The Dark Fantastic
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On this episode, it’s the return of Aimee Arandia Østensen! She’s here to talk with me about The Dark Fantastic:
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Children of Blood and Bone on #vted Reads
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On this episode of #vted Reads, we welcome Erika Saunders back to the show! Erika agreed to guest-host an episode,
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#vted Reads with Jason Broughton
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Lovely listeners, we have such a treat for you today. Joining us on this episode of the show is Vermont
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#vted Reads about PBIS
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Listener, how do you feel about positive interventions, behaviors and supports? I don’t mean in general — in general those
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#vted Reads: So You Want to Talk About Race
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In this episode, we get real about what educators can do in their classrooms to make a more equitable playing
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Centering care and love
Schools have been preparing for students all summer: developing protocols for handwashing and bathroom use, deploying hand sanitizer stations, hanging
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The power of virtual field trips
Do you remember those pre-COVID days? All of the exciting plans, the face to face collaboration, the FIELD TRIPS?! The
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Virtual video walkie-talkies? Meet the Marco Polo app
Why the Marco Polo app? With social distancing and remote learning on educators’ minds, there’s never been a more urgent
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How to get ebooks in the hands of students
The other day as I imagined my thirteen-year-old self stuck at home for the remainder of the school year, I
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Setting & tracking reading goals
I am NOT a fan of mandatory reading logs. I am, however, a huge fan of reading for pleasure. Stories,
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Remote learning: relationships first
As schools consider moving to remote learning, you may be pondering how to continue the supportive and carefully developed community
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#vted Reads: Hidden Roots with Judy Dow
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On this episode of #vted Reads, we’re joined by noted Native scholar Judy Dow, to talk about Hidden Roots, by
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#vted Reads: The End of Average
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Today on the show, we’re going to talk about The End of Average: How to Succeed in a World That
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#vted Reads: Dreadful Young Ladies, with Sarah Birgé
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Listeners: how do you talk to your students about the special love that exists between a woman and a Sasquatch?
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#vted Reads: Place-Based Curriculum Design
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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
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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
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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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#vted Reads: Watch Us Rise
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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
So, maybe you’ve been using protocols at faculty meetings or professional learning community sessions. Perhaps you’ve found that they make
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#vted Reads: Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty
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In this episode of #vted Reads, I return to my old stomping grounds at Green Mountain Union High School. I’m
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#vted Reads: No Fixed Address with Annie Brabazon
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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In this episode of #vted Reads, we talk about Troublemakers, a book by Carla Shalaby. We touch on what we’re
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(re)Building community
Breaking bread & stereotypes with formerly incarcerated Vermonters Food and community are inextricably linked. Birthdays, funerals, weddings, holidays: a meal
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#vted Reads: Orbiting Jupiter, with Stacy Raphael
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First, what is #vted Reads? Big news, listeners! #vted Reads has spun off from The 21st Century Classroom and
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Check, Please! #Hockey with Peter Langella
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Reading and discussing graphic novels OMG Check Please! Librarian Jeanie Phillips talks graphic novels with Peter Langella, Vermont librarian, educator
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All about service learning
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with Katy Farber From real and relevant to what to do in the event of a mountain bike accident, the
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Piecing Me Together, with Jory Hearst
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Also featuring: The Green Mountain Book Awards! Legendary Librarian Jeanie Phillips is back on the podcast talking about what else
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“The Culture Code”, with Bill Rich
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Why do certain groups add up to be greater than the sum of their parts? In this episode of our
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How to plan a service learning project in 5 stages
Leland & Gray lead the way Leland & Gray Union Middle and High School, in Townshend, VT, used a popular
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Evolving student roles in a big (BIG) PBL project
As Dorset’s coop dreams became a reality, students gathered new skills What does it look like to break one enormous project
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How to create empathy with your community
Meet the Compassionate Faces of the Shires How do your students recognize compassion? Do they recognize it in the faces
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Battle Physics at Green Mountain Union High School
Come for the math, stay for the slingshots! Green Mountain 7th graders and HS physics students apply math and science to
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