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Goal-setting

Goal-setting Identity News PLPs 

Care and Feeding of the PLP

November 18, 2021November 19, 2021 Jeanie Phillips 1 Comment Two Rivers Supervisory Union

Take a moment to think about a learning experience that was meaningful to your students. How do you know that

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The Culture Code
Goal-setting Teaming The 21st Century Classroom 

“The Culture Code”, with Bill Rich

September 25, 2018February 26, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 1 Comment Bill Rich, Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code
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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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proficiency-based learning: setting a goal with a guitar
Goal-setting Proficiency-Based Learning 

3 visualization exercises for proficiency-based learning

October 27, 2016December 7, 2018 Susan Hennessey 1 Comment Harwood Union Middle School, Hazen Union School, Stowe Middle School

Outcomes, process and automaticity I worked with a group of teachers this summer to re-think goal-setting with their students. We

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Goal-setting 

Cross-school goal-setting for PLPs

April 18, 2016June 22, 2021 Susan Hennessey 2 Comments Google Hangout, Lamoille Union Middle School, Peoples Academy Middle Level

Motivating students around goals by connecting schools Many Vermont students have worked hard this year establishing personal and academic goals

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using digital tools to change student goal-setting and reflection
Action Research Goal-setting 

Using digital tools to change student goal-setting and reflection

March 14, 2016April 13, 2022 Audrey Homan 6 Comments 1:1, goal-setting, Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Sites, MGC, Shrewsbury Mountain School, Wallingford Elementary School

Measuring how students approach goal-setting in the 5th and 6th grades   Educators at Wallingford Elementary School and Shrewsbury Mountain

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