Summer Reading 2021
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
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 in the Middle Grades
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 Healthy & Respectful Conversations
“How to Facilitate Healthy & Respectful Conversations (Online & Off)” is an interactive online workshop for educators that we offered
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Place-Based, De-Colonized Ecology in Middle School
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 & Other Strategies for Supporting Independent Learners
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
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
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 Break Reading, 2020 edition
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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vted Reads: The Hate U Give
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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.
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 with Elijah Hawkes
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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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14 socially distanced advisory activities
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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What do public exhibitions of learning look like during a pandemic?
The days of hosting public exhibitions and showcases in the school gymnasium appear to be over. For now. Some schools
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Measuring the value of a personalized learning coordinator
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 & remote learning
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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Re-connect & re-imagine this return to school.
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
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 with TIIE
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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The power of PIPs in a pandemic
Middle school is not a Zoom room. When the quick switch to a remote environment was required, Charlotte Central School
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Everything is not canceled.
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
It all started with a pandemic Dear reader, as you are well aware, back in March a global pandemic struck
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Where are we with formative assessment for remote learning?
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 Quarantine Homeschooling Dispatch
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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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Connecting students to community in the Northeast Kingdom
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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How to throw culminating events — online!
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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How to conduct a virtual 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?
I mean really, how are you? More than anything I wish I could sit down with you, face to face,
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Introducing: 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
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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How to set personal boundaries with remote learning
Educators? We need to talk personal boundaries for remote learning. Every day, you used to dress and pack a bag
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Scaffolding students with Padlet and Flipgrid
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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Balancing your new work and home situations
What happens when your work and home ecospheres become one and the same? For many of us this is part
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How to run an in-person morning meeting at home
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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Talking with Mount Holly students
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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4 things I learned by being a student again
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?
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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Summertiiiiiiiiiiiiime
And the reading is eeeeeasy. Time to pull out your bicycle, kayak, or barbecue. Or curl up in the hammock,
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2018 TIIE Holiday Reading
One of the best things about winter break is the chance to slow down and, for readers, the chance to
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Summer reading 2018
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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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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