Self-directed learning Archives : Innovative Education in VT

Centering Relationships & Routines

January 20, 2022January 20, 2022 Emily Hoyler 1 Comment

Many of the routines of the school day have been frayed by the pandemic. From kids unable to engage in work

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Student clubs for engagement and wellbeing

December 7, 2021December 7, 2021 Life LeGeros 2 Comments engagement, student clubs, wellbeing

Need more student engagement and wellbeing? Join the club! Educators are always looking for ways to get students more engaged

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Increasing Student Self-Direction

May 18, 2021 Rachel Mark 0 Comments

“Increasing Student Self-Direction” was a webinar presented by Rachel Mark as part of the 2020-2021 UVM Tarrant Institute Professional Learning

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PLPs, Parenting, and a Pandemic

November 6, 2020 Emily Hoyler 0 Comments

228 days home with my 3 children. 88 days of remote learning, spanning 2 school years and 5 different grade

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What can we learn from summer unschooling?

August 31, 2020 Audrey Homan 0 Comments summer, ubiquitous learning

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to think and talk about innovative school change. It’s difficult to see the start of this

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How to get ebooks in the hands of students

April 22, 2020February 28, 2021 Jeanie Phillips 3 Comments digital literacy, ebooks, literacy, reading

The other day as I imagined my thirteen-year-old self stuck at home for the remainder of the school year, I

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Setting & tracking reading goals

April 20, 2020February 11, 2021 Jeanie Phillips 4 Comments digital literacy, digital literacy tools, goal-setting, literacy, reading logs

I am NOT a fan of mandatory reading logs. I am, however, a huge fan of reading for pleasure. Stories,

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Digging into self-direction

February 14, 2020February 25, 2020 Scott Thompson 3 Comments research, self-directed learning, self-direction

When states around the country shifted towards standards-based, competency-based and proficiency-based learning and reporting, that involved separating the content-specific skills

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Self-awareness and self-direction

January 30, 2020March 26, 2020 Audrey Homan 0 Comments Heidi Baitz, Ludlow Elementary School, self awareness, self-direction

I’m going to be honest with you, writing this blog post about self-direction has taken, well, a lot of self-direction.

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How to craft questions for deeper learning

September 15, 2019September 16, 2019 Susan Hennessey 0 Comments "Ask Away Alley", NGSS, Socratic Seminar, The Question Formulation Technique, The Question Game

Question generation is key to inquiry, goal-setting, and negotiated curriculum. And asking the right kinds of questions pushes students further.

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Run the world (Teachers) aka #TeacherDirectedPD

December 10, 2018December 11, 2018 Emily Hoyler 0 Comments

We just held the Best. In-service. Ever. And all it took was a little love & empathy. Some in-service professional

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The #everydaycourage of trying again

September 18, 2017September 19, 2018 Life LeGeros 0 Comments #everydaycourage, Crossett Brook Middle School

Seeing failure as iteration A trio of students at Crossett Brook Middle School, in Duxbury VT, have spent the past

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What are the benefits of taking Genius Hour school-wide?

May 18, 2017June 23, 2017 Life LeGeros 0 Comments Crossett Brook Middle School, genius hour

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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The student-centered art classroom

May 16, 2017June 23, 2017 Rachel Mark 4 Comments art, proficiency-based assessment, Rutland Town School

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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Looking to try more student-directed learning?

October 17, 2016November 30, 2018 Rachel Mark 0 Comments genius hour, student-directed learning, The Dorset School

Test the waters with “Genius Groups” Start by turning your class over to students. You heard me. Set aside classroom

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Learn Like a Pirate: Key takeaways

July 7, 2016April 12, 2022 Katy Farber 1 Comment digital portfolio, digital portfolios, e-portfolios, eportfolios, personalized learning, personalized learning plan, personalized learning plans, PLP, PLPs, portfolio, portfolios, summer reading

Katy’s 2016 Summer Reading Something about this book title and summer reading fits perfectly. The open ocean, pirates, and fierce

David Baroody 20 Time in the Middle Grades Classroom

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20 time in the middle school classroom

March 23, 2016October 2, 2018 David Baroody 11 Comments genius hour

Lessons learned from passion-based research Passion-based research goes by many different names; 20% Time and Genius Hour are just two

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Self-directed learning and playlists

March 3, 2016April 22, 2022 Susan Hennessey 5 Comments Act 77, Digital Promise, playlists, Up for Learning

Curating lists of online resources for deep dives into content research We have been spending much of our time here

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Personalized STEM learning at Essex High School

March 31, 2015April 15, 2022 Audrey Homan 5 Comments Act 77, advisory, community partnerships, digital portfolios, e-portfolios, Essex High School, personalized learning, personalized learning plan, personalized learning plans, PLP, PLPs, portfolio, portfolios, STEM

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