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      • 2.1 Knowing Students Well
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    • Ch 5: Flexing Your Pathways
      • 5.1 Engaging Pedagogies for All
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Transferable Skills

Bees on hive
News Transferable Skills 

Strategies for Fostering Student Collaboration

March 15, 2022April 1, 2022 Jeanie Phillips 1 Comment

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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News Transferable Skills 

Transferable Skill Deep Dive: Fostering communication

October 21, 2021October 20, 2021 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments Two Rivers Supervisory Union

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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positive emotional energy
Transferable Skills 

3 ways to bring positive emotional energy to your school

January 24, 2020February 25, 2020 Audrey Homan 1 Comment emotional energy, emotional resilience, gratitude journal, mindfulness

Positive emotional energy makes positive learning. We need systems focused on creating positive and safe climates. We also need, as

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Self-directed learning Transferable Skills 

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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What could it look like to be active together, talking and problem-solving first thing in the morning?
Transferable Skills 

5 fresh ways to power up morning meetings

September 6, 2019September 10, 2019 Katy Farber 1 Comment morning meeting, Newsela, The State of the Class, Warren Elementary School, What's Up in the World?

  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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keeping the holiday spirit all year long at Burke Town School
Transferable Skills 

How to keep the holiday spirit all year long

January 23, 2019January 24, 2019 Morgan Moore 0 Comments Burke Town School

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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tips for writing great blogposts
Transferable Skills 

16 tips for writing a great blog post

November 23, 2018November 26, 2018 Audrey Homan 3 Comments blogging, creative writing, digital storytelling, student blogging

#10 will shock and appall you… Here are 16 best practices we try to follow as writers on this blog.

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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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Innovative Edtech Classrooms Transferable Skills 

Students blogging for an authentic audience

May 7, 2018February 13, 2019 Julia Taylor 13 Comments blogging, language arts, student blogging, The Compass School

Getting connected: online & with community members What if there was a way to spend less time grading your students’

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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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Service Learning Transferable Skills 

How making supports service learning

October 6, 2017June 18, 2018 Lucie deLaBruere 0 Comments Grand Isle School

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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Transferable Skills 

Maker-centered learning and transferable skills:

October 5, 2017June 18, 2018 Lucie deLaBruere 2 Comments Malletts Bay School

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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Transferable Skills 

Making as evidence of self-direction

October 4, 2017June 18, 2018 Lucie deLaBruere 0 Comments Makerspaces, Makey Makey, North Country Union Junior High School

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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Transferable Skills 

The Maker Movement and transferable skills

October 3, 2017June 18, 2018 Lucie deLaBruere 1 Comment Crossett Brook Middle School, makerspace, Shelburne Community School, West Rutland School

Making as evidence of transferable skills around Vermont During the past year, EMMA has visited schools around Vermont to fuel

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Proficiency-Based Learning Transferable Skills 

J-Term at Hazen Union

June 28, 2017April 29, 2022 Susan Hennessey 0 Comments Hazen Union School

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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Transferable Skills 

Build personal connections in teacher advisory

June 1, 2017December 7, 2018 Susan Hennessey 0 Comments Peoples Academy Middle Level

“Every student gets greeted at the start of every day.” At Peoples Academy Middle Level, educators have taken the role

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studying national parks with digital tools
Stories from VT Students Transferable Skills 

Study National Parks with digital tools

March 21, 2016September 19, 2018 Audrey Homan 7 Comments iMovie, Lamoille Union Middle School

Student-created virtual park tours With access to online and tablet-based tools for digital curation and content creation, students can research

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Transferable Skills 

Exploring digital citizenship as a form of literacy

February 26, 2016June 17, 2020 Sheila Selden 15 Comments Brattleboro Area Middle School, digital citizenship, Google Docs, Photoshop, WeVideo

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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Transferable Skills 

On middle school math and picking favorites

August 18, 2014February 28, 2016 Meredith Swallow 1 Comment code camp, math, pi

Pi, Code Camp and other irrational things

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Transferable Skills 

Sue Monmaney on digital literacy and eBooks

September 10, 2013February 28, 2016 Audrey Homan 0 Comments digital literacy, Dynamic Landscapes

“I noticed something recently when I was at a workshop or a meeting or something. I was with a colleague

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