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Author: Jeanie Phillips

Should Vermont host the next olympics
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

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student-made chicken coops
Project-Based Learning Real World PBL 

How to build a better (student-made) chicken coop

March 6, 2018October 2, 2018 Jeanie Phillips 4 Comments Planner 5D, The Dorset School

Applying NGSS to… chickens? At the Dorset School, in Dorset VT, the 8th graders know that fresh, farm-raised eggs taste

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Green Mountain Union High School Wilderness Semester
Flexible Pathways Stories from VT Students 

Green Mountain’s Wilderness Semester

March 2, 2018September 19, 2018 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments Green Mountain Union High School, scheduling

Take student learning outside Students at Green Mountain Union High School demonstrate learning in Science, Social Studies, Health, and Language

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Flood Brook School passion projects
Flexible Pathways Stories from VT Students 

Sharing your school’s Passion Projects

February 2, 2018September 19, 2018 Jeanie Phillips 2 Comments Flood Brook School

Does your community know you as a learner? Flood Brook School buzzed with excitement. Students brought in their projects on

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5 online resources for teaching current events

October 13, 2017February 11, 2021 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments #FergusonSyllabus, Allsides, Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, Listenwise, Newsela, Vermont Online Library

When things get tough, the tough use tools. Whether you’re actively trying to embed current events in your curriculum or

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The #everydaycourage of talking about race in Vermont schools

September 7, 2017June 18, 2018 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments #everydaycourage, equity, Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, social justice

How will your students prepare for active engagement in democracy? Last spring Christie Nold, a 6th grade teacher at Frederick

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The #everydaycourage of sharing our work as educators

September 1, 2017June 18, 2018 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments #everydaycourage, collaboration

3 ways to de-privatize our practice My first teaching job was in the library at a large, open-concept elementary school

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