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      • 2.1 Knowing Students Well
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    • Ch 3: Laying The Groundwork for PLPs
      • 3.1 What Are Your Pedagogical Priorities?
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    • Ch 4: Starting with the Learner Profile
    • Ch 5: Flexing Your Pathways
      • 5.1 Engaging Pedagogies for All
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Author: TIIE Staff

Summer Reading 2021
News 

Summer Reading 2021

July 6, 2021July 6, 2021 TIIE Staff 0 Comments summer, summer reading

Hooray for summer! Sure, we usually say something along those lines this time of year, but this year? ONCE MORE

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Learning Lab Lessons learned
Learning Lab VT 

Learning Lab Lessons Learned

June 26, 2021June 25, 2021 TIIE Staff 0 Comments

In a year of many firsts, both good and bad, the Learning Lab faced a lot of unique challenges. This

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Challenging Simplified Notions of Health Equity
Action Research 

Challenging Simplified Notions of Health Equity in the Middle Grades

April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 TIIE Staff 0 Comments health education, MGC

Lindsay McQueen, a middle school science educator at Edmunds Middle School, in Burlington VT, originally presented “Challenging Simplified Notions About

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how to facilitate conversations
Action Research Events 

How to Facilitate Healthy & Respectful Conversations

March 30, 2021April 22, 2021 TIIE Staff 16 Comments Harkness, Harwood Union High School

“How to Facilitate Healthy & Respectful Conversations (Online & Off)” is an interactive online workshop for educators that we offered

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Making Science Authentic: Teaching Place-Based Decolonized Ecology in the Middle School Classroom
Action Research Flexible Pathways 

Place-Based, De-Colonized Ecology in Middle School

March 25, 2021April 1, 2021 TIIE Staff 1 Comment Lyndon Town School, MGC, ubiquitous learning

Natalie Smith, a middle school science educator at Lyndon Town School, in Lyndonville VT, originally presented “Making Science Authentic: Teaching

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Playlists for Scaffolding Self-Directed Learners
Events 

Playlists & Other Strategies for Supporting Independent Learners

March 11, 2021March 11, 2021 TIIE Staff 0 Comments

Playlists & Other Strategies for Supporting Independent Learners is an interactive online workshop for educators that we offered in December

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Decolonizing Place-Based Education
Events 

Decolonizing Place-Based Education

February 17, 2021March 11, 2021 TIIE Staff 0 Comments

Decolonizing Place-Based Education is an interactive online workshop for educators that we offered in February 2021. It is a collaborative

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resources for responding to January 6th
News 

Resources for responding to January 6th

January 8, 2021January 19, 2021 TIIE Staff 0 Comments

As ever-increasing cracks in the foundation of our democracy reveal weakness and corruption, so too do these revelations allow the

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winter reading 2020
News 

Winter Break Reading, 2020 edition

December 15, 2020December 15, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments

While most of the time, we’re looking forward to the winter part of our winter reading break, this year it’s

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The Hate U Give
#vted Reads 

vted Reads: The Hate U Give

October 13, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments
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In this episode, we sit down with the executive director of the Vermont Humanities Council, Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup. The Vermont

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keep saying their names
News 

Keep saying their names.

September 29, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments social justice

This has been a tough few weeks. Even in relative terms to 2020, it was “a week.” Our sense of

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#vted Reads 

#vted Reads with Elijah Hawkes

September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments
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Listeners, I’m angry. I’m angry about the failure of our political leadership, the unmitigated disaster of climate change, and the

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socially distanced advisory activities
Remote Learning 

14 socially distanced advisory activities

September 3, 2020February 9, 2021 TIIE Staff 1 Comment

We’re all terrified, anxious, and… back at it in schools! So, as we return, let’s look at this big list

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public exhibitions of learning pandemic
Remote Learning 

What do public exhibitions of learning look like during a pandemic?

August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments Mt Abraham Union HS, Warren Elementary School, Williston Central School

The days of hosting public exhibitions and showcases in the school gymnasium appear to be over. For now. Some schools

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personalized learning coordinator
Flexible Pathways 

Measuring the value of a personalized learning coordinator

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments

Will schools really re-open this fall? And what will they look like? Most of all: how will we ensure that

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physical education and remote learning
Remote Learning 

Physical education & remote learning

August 17, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments Kingdom East, physical education

We know the importance of physical activity to our health and well-being. So, when we educators needed to pivot quickly

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return to school
Remote Learning 

Re-connect & re-imagine this return to school.

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments #COVID19

The return to school is usually filled with excitement, anticipation, and maybe a little nervousness. This year though? Much more

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not all rainbows and unicorns
News 

Not all rainbows and unicorns

August 13, 2020August 13, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments #vtgrateful

Hello there, educator friends and colleagues! I hope this note finds you in a good moment. Good moments are crucial

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2020 summer reading
News 

2020 Summer Reading with TIIE

July 3, 2020July 3, 2020 TIIE Staff 5 Comments

Emily Hoyler It seems my ‘to-read’ pile is growing faster than I am reading. Luckily it’s summer. These longer days

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Remote Learning 

The power of PIPs in a pandemic

June 18, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments Charlotte Central School

Middle school is not a Zoom room. When the quick switch to a remote environment was required, Charlotte Central School

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News 

Everything is not canceled.

May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments chickens, resilience

I think I speak for many when I share that I have experienced innumerable emotions, moods, and feelings during this

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Project-based learning at home
Project-Based Learning Real World PBL 

Project-based learning at home

May 22, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments

It all started with a pandemic Dear reader, as you are well aware, back in March a global pandemic struck

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Going Remote with Formative Assessment
Remote Learning 

Where are we with formative assessment for remote learning?

May 18, 2020May 15, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments

Who could have predicted were we are today? Many aspects of education have been challenging the past few month. Most

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a homeschooling dispatch
The 21st Century Classroom 

A Quarantine Homeschooling Dispatch

May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 TIIE Staff 1 Comment family engagement, homeschooling, math games, scheduling
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Today on the 21st Century Classroom, from Super Sisters Academy: It feels really weird, because in some ways it’s kind

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community and student agency
Project-Based Learning 

Connecting students to community in the Northeast Kingdom

May 8, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments Burke Town School, Global Goals

How do we help students connect to their communities, and consider how to enrich community life? That’s the question Chrissy

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online culminating events
Project-Based Learning Remote Learning 

How to throw culminating events — online!

May 6, 2020May 5, 2020 TIIE Staff 2 Comments culminating exhibitions

It is spring. I know, snow has fallen and it has been cold lately, but it’s officially May. And while

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virtual morning meeting
Remote Learning 

How to conduct a virtual morning meeting

May 4, 2020April 12, 2022 TIIE Staff 1 Comment advisory, goal-setting, identity, morning meeting

During this COVID-19 crisis, we as adult educators, are collectively mourning the loss of our everyday routines and face-to-face interactions.

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how are you
News 

How are you?

May 2, 2020May 4, 2020 TIIE Staff 12 Comments The Joy Project

I mean really, how are you? More than anything I wish I could sit down with you, face to face,

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the joy project
Remote Learning 

Introducing: The Joy Project

May 1, 2020October 6, 2020 TIIE Staff 1 Comment The Joy Project

JOY + CARE + RESILIENCE Lots of educators, students and families are telling us that we can’t simply replicate in-classroom

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Pivoting! to remote PBL
Project-Based Learning Remote Learning 

Pivoting! to remote PBL

April 27, 2020April 29, 2022 TIIE Staff 1 Comment Burke Town School, Chrissy Park, community schooling, PBL

Oh, remember back when we had our project-based learning culminating events all mapped out? Students presenting at Dynamic Landscapes! A

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personal boundaries for remote learning
Remote Learning 

How to set personal boundaries with remote learning

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 TIIE Staff 3 Comments

Educators? We need to talk personal boundaries for remote learning. Every day, you used to dress and pack a bag

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Padlet and Flipgrid
Remote Learning 

Scaffolding students with Padlet and Flipgrid

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments flipgrid, padlet, Proctor Elementary School, Warren Elementary School

Collaboration is not just fun for students, it’s also a crucial skill they will need to be successful in life.

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Cat in Zoom Mgt
Remote Learning 

Balancing your new work and home situations

April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 TIIE Staff 2 Comments

What happens when your work and home ecospheres become one and the same? For many of us this is part

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morning meeting at home
Remote Learning 

How to run an in-person morning meeting at home

April 6, 2020April 6, 2020 TIIE Staff 2 Comments behavioral norms, morning meeting, norms

Parents, how are you doing at home with your new “homeschool classroom”? I’m with you. I’ve been waking up every

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Mt Holly students
The 21st Century Classroom 

Talking with Mount Holly students

April 3, 2020April 6, 2020 TIIE Staff 2 Comments Mount Holly, Two Rivers Supervisory Union

On this episode of The 21st Century Classroom: M.:  I learned to, well, use a computer. That’s a big one.

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being a student
News 

4 things I learned by being a student again

March 9, 2020March 11, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments empathy

Being a student again is harder than I expected, and it’s also been quite revealing Recently, I decided to go

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how do you stay balanced
News 

How do you stay balanced?

March 5, 2020March 5, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments

Balancing my professional and personal lives is something I am flat out terrible at. I know it’s hard for me and

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News 

Summertiiiiiiiiiiiiime

July 1, 2019April 29, 2022 TIIE Staff 1 Comment summer reading

And the reading is eeeeeasy. Time to pull out your bicycle, kayak, or barbecue. Or curl up in the hammock,

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Life LeGeros with books
News 

2018 TIIE Holiday Reading

December 20, 2018December 23, 2018 TIIE Staff 0 Comments

One of the best things about winter break is the chance to slow down and, for readers, the chance to

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Tarrant Institute summer reading 2018
News 

Summer reading 2018

June 22, 2018April 29, 2022 TIIE Staff 0 Comments

Get your red hot summer reads right here! Or your chilling-in-the-AC-far-away-from-sunlight summer reads. We don’t judge. For educators, summer is

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News 

Our 2017 Holiday Reading Guide

December 20, 2017December 20, 2017 TIIE Staff 1 Comment

A very happy holidays and good reading for all There’s nothing like relaxing with a good book for the holidays.

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