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Identity

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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Margaret Dunne
Identity News 

Exploring Identity with 4th and 5th Graders

June 29, 2021April 12, 2022 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments advisory, goal-setting, identity, MGC, Middle Grades Institute (MGI), Mount Holly, social identity

Margaret Dunne, a fourth and fifth-grade educator at Mount Holly School in Mount Holly VT, originally presented “Exploring Identity with

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antiracism
Identity 

Students can learn about antiracism.

June 26, 2020 Life LeGeros 2 Comments equity, social justice, systemic racism

And they’re willing to tell you how. Children begin internalizing racial bias by the time they are two years old.

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student intervention
Equity Identity 

Student intervention for anti-racist education

June 17, 2020October 19, 2022 Life LeGeros 2 Comments equity, Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, social justice

Schools are committed to bringing anti-racism into curricula and systems more than ever before. Even in predominantly white schools there

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UVM Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education equity Tuttle art unit
Equity Identity 

Equity, identity & art

June 14, 2019April 29, 2022 Life LeGeros 17 Comments equity, Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, live performance, slam poetry, social justice

Tracing a middle level social identity unit Identity. Oppression. Social justice. Structural racism. Liberation. These are some intense ideas to

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real world rural project-based learning
Identity Real World PBL 

Real World: Cabot

April 19, 2019April 20, 2019 Katy Farber 3 Comments The Cabot School

Rural life and project-based learning You might find students on the skating rink in front of the school, helping out

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The athlete, the artist & the PLP
Identity Stories from VT Students 

The athlete, the artist & the PLP

November 16, 2018November 20, 2018 Audrey Homan 0 Comments Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School

How Passion Projects can fire up a student-led conference Julia is a student at Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, in

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identity work with students
Identity 

Scaffolding deeper identity work with students

September 24, 2018September 24, 2018 Life LeGeros 0 Comments Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School

Beyond the “About Me” page “What is important to know about me to help me learn?” Every student at Frederick

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tools for exploring character
Identity Reflection Transferable Skills 

3 tools for exploring character with middle schoolers

September 19, 2018April 29, 2022 Emily Hoyler 0 Comments advisory, Cornwall School, goal-setting, identity

Who am I and who do I want to be in the world? What do I stand for? What is

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progressive style guide for the #1st5days
Identity 

5 resources for building community

August 22, 2018February 13, 2019 Audrey Homan 25 Comments Cornwall School, mindfulness

Starting how you mean to go on New year, new students. New school, sometimes, and a whole new opportunity to

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Town Meeting Day in VT classrooms
Identity Stories from VT Students Transferable Skills 

What if you could have Town Meeting Day every week?

March 9, 2018April 29, 2022 Life LeGeros 0 Comments civics, town meeting, VT town meeting, Warren Elementary School

A Vermont tradition comes to the classroom Town Meeting Day is a Vermont tradition: once a year, everyone in towns

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Crossett Brook QSA
Identity The 21st Century Classroom 

The Crossett Brook Queer-Straight Alliance

September 5, 2017September 10, 2018 Life LeGeros 0 Comments Crossett Brook Middle School
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Think middle schoolers are too young for a QSA? Think again At the Queer Straight Alliance (QSA) at Crossett Brook

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Identity 

4 digital identity exercises for students

August 31, 2016April 19, 2018 Audrey Homan 2 Comments #readytolaunch, Crossett Brook Middle School, iMovie, Lamoille Union Middle School, Thinglink, Touchcast

Introduce a student-centered tech-rich year Looking for ways to explore digital identity with students? Here are 4 student-centered, tech-rich digital

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using Thinglink to explore identity
Identity 

Use Thinglink to explore identity

July 14, 2016July 25, 2019 Audrey Homan 1 Comment augmented reality, iPad, iPad tutorial, The Cabot School, Thinglink

Creating and sharing digital selves I’m participating in Thinglink’s Summer VR Challenge, and the first exercise in the challenge is

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Identity Innovative Edtech Classrooms 

Augmented reality and student identity

November 13, 2015February 22, 2021 Susan Hennessey 6 Comments augmented reality, Hazen Union School, iMovie, Lamoille Union Middle School, QR codes, Shadow Puppet, Thinglink, Vermont

Students explore the geography of self(ies) An innovative way for students to explore who they are happens in Lori Lisai’s

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Identity The 21st Century Classroom 

Z is for Generation Z

October 27, 2015February 26, 2019 Audrey Homan 16 Comments #ABCsofedtech, Crossett Brook Middle School, digital natives, equity, Generation Z, Warren Elementary School
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Who are Generation Z? The term Generation Z refers to teens and pre-teens born after 1995 and was officially launched

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identity in PLPs
Identity 

I is for Identity

September 2, 2015April 22, 2022 Rachel Mark 5 Comments #ABCsofedtech, Book Creator, Edmunds Middle School, evernote, Flipboard, Google Sites, Harwood Union Middle School, personalized learning, personalized learning plan, personalized learning plans, PLP, PLPs, portfolio, portfolios, Young Writers Project

3 tech-rich strategies for exploring identity with students “Who am I?” is the question at the heart of the adolescent

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