Prioritizing daily movement and experiential learning in Newark
Dillin, a seventh grade student at Newark Street School (NSS), had this to say about starting school with 30 minutes
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Transferable Skills
Strategies for Fostering Student Collaboration
I’ve had to work really hard to learn how to collaborate. Yet, my K-12 teachers always gave me A’s on
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Transferable Skill Deep Dive: Fostering communication
What do you see when you look at this picture? (For real, I’m not being sarcastic, what do you see?)
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3 ways to bring positive emotional energy to your school
Positive emotional energy makes positive learning. We need systems focused on creating positive and safe climates. We also need, as
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How to craft questions for deeper learning
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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5 fresh ways to power up morning meetings
Morning meetings are the norm in many K-6 and K-8 schools in Vermont. They’re a great way to empower
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How to keep the holiday spirit all year long
A holiday post in January? While this may not seem on-theme, I’m motivated to write about teaching inclusive holidays after
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16 tips for writing a great blog post
#10 will shock and appall you… Here are 16 best practices we try to follow as writers on this blog.
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3 tools for exploring character with middle schoolers
Who am I and who do I want to be in the world? What do I stand for? What is
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Getting connected: online & with community members What if there was a way to spend less time grading your students’
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What if you could have Town Meeting Day every week?
A Vermont tradition comes to the classroom Town Meeting Day is a Vermont tradition: once a year, everyone in towns
Read moreHow making supports service learning
Responsible and involved citizenship in Grand Isle We’re looking at how maker-centered learning and makerspace activities can help support students
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Making as evidence of problem-solving It’s quite easy to see how making often takes students on new journeys, where their
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The Maker Movement & Transferable Skills, Part 2 We’re looking at how maker-centered learning provides opportunities for students to develop
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Making as evidence of transferable skills around Vermont During the past year, EMMA has visited schools around Vermont to fuel
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Personalized, proficiency-based PBL or bust During a faculty meeting in late December of 2016, educators and staff talked about the
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“Every student gets greeted at the start of every day.” At Peoples Academy Middle Level, educators have taken the role
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Study National Parks with digital tools
Student-created virtual park tours With access to online and tablet-based tools for digital curation and content creation, students can research
Read moreExploring digital citizenship as a form of literacy
7th graders learn video as reflection tool When I sat down to work with my students on digital citizenship and literacy,
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Pi, Code Camp and other irrational things
Read moreSue Monmaney on digital literacy and eBooks
“I noticed something recently when I was at a workshop or a meeting or something. I was with a colleague
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