What’s your inquiry question?
The why and how of personalization An inquiry question forms the backbone of action research in the classroom. It guides
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Action Research
Increasing student engagement in PLPs at Williston Central
It’s about providing choice in reflection tools Personalized Learning Plans (PLPs) across the state have taken many different forms and
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Unlocking family communication in math class
Students write weekly emails to their families Lizzie Stockbridge, a 6th grade math teacher at Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School
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How do you measure success with project-based learning?
“A Tale of Three Projects” Two Vermont educators share how they measure success with project-based learning units… in space! Allan
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Toward a student-directed classroom
Releasing responsibility in Ottauquechee Ottauquechee Elementary School teacher Kim Dumont had a vision. She wanted to build her students’s self-direction
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Voice + choice = a better math classroom
Start by listening to students Elizabeth Tarno asked her students for feedback about their math class at the end of
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How to build teacher advisory
Peoples Academy Middle Level shares their action research “It’s getting personal”. Peoples Academy Middle Level teachers discuss how they’ve created
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Unpacking a great action research project
A tale of research-driven change Last year two educators at Crossett Brook Middle School undertook an amazing action research project
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Flexible pathways in proficiency-based learning
Standard 3-part story-driven post: 1) what it is, 2) what it looks like in a school, 3) how to do it in your school
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Scheduling and student choice
Standard 3-part story-driven post: 1) what it is, 2) what it looks like in a school, 3) how to do it in your school
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Can sustained silent reading help reluctant readers?
How student choice can support literacy English teacher Laela Warnecke set out to answer one question: “How might sustained silent reading impact
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How to get started with action research
Strategies for starting a research project Whether the inspiring teacher examples from my last post roused your inner researcher, or you’re
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5 benefits of doing action research in the classroom Teachers are constantly tinkering, creating, learning, and growing. Action research is
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Implementing 1:1 norms and digital citizenship
How do student behaviors change? Debi Serafino, a math teacher at Brattleboro Area Middle School, presents the results of her semester-long action
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Using digital tools to change student goal-setting and reflection
Measuring how students approach goal-setting in the 5th and 6th grades Educators at Wallingford Elementary School and Shrewsbury Mountain
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Google Tools for personal learning plans (PLPs)
A teacher-authored case study Today we hear from a grade 5-6 team venturing into the world of personal learning plans (PLPs)
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How does professional development affect technology integration?
The impact of PD in a 1:1 teaching environment A trio of middle grades educators from Mill River Union High
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Teaching students how to set personal exploration goals
Goal-setting as a process This presentation, delivered by Harwood Union High School teacher Lissa Fox at the 2016 Middle Grades Conference, describes
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Student-led conferences and engagement in PLPs
A middle school case study Katie Bryant, an English teacher at Lamoille Union Middle School, presents the results of her
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PLPs and literacy
Incorporating student choice into reading This screencast, from Crossett Brook Middle School, in Waterbury, Vermont, describes an action research project based
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