Learning Lab VT is a year-long practicum that networks Vermont educators and students, who conduct classroom research related to the questions:
- What, exactly, are teachers and students doing in settings that are becoming increasingly personalized, and to what end?
- How might our findings be helpful to each other, our students, and our colleagues?
Below are some findings and helpful resources from past participants, a boon for busy educators eager to learn from others’ experiences.
Charlie Herzog, Flood Brook School, Londonderry VT Integrated Studies & science
Inquiry Question: How might putting the project at the front of a project-based learning experience increase personalization for students?
Reflection Post: This Is Really Scary (And I’ve Never Been More Excited)
Corey Smith & Courtney Elliot, Proctor Elementary School 3rd & 4th grade
Inquiry Question: How might personalization through self-reflection, self-assessment, and flexible grouping and scheduling across grades 3 and 4 at Proctor Elementary School positively impact student engagement and achievement?
- Episode 1: What isn’t working in the classroom and how we can improve it
- Episode 2: Choice menus – what they are, how we use them, and how the impact learning
- Episode 3: Intervention block transformation
- Episode 4: The students and I share how Throwback Thursday, our intervention block, works
- Episode 5: How choice menus work
Peter Stratman, Cabot VT 7th & 8th grade Humanities
Inquiry Question: How can a school-based jobs program—Cabot Leads—impact how students see themselves as learners?
Cabot Student Leadership Council
Cabot Leads VTFest presentation
Stephanie Zuccarello, Peoples Academy Middle Level, Morrisville VT 6th grade science
Inquiry Question: How can we shape Opportunity Time (genius hour) to introduce the power of personalization to young adolescents?
Findings from two years of personalization
Andrea Gratton & Kyle Chadburn, Orleans Elementary School, Orleans VT 5-8 Humanities
Inquiry Question: How can we increase student voice and extend opportunities for personalization through project-based learning?
Journal Article – Middle Grades Review
Deirdre Beaupre, Lamoille Union Middle School, Hyde Park VT, 7th & 8th grade math
Inquiry Question: What kinds of opportunities encourage students to go beyond “proficient”?
Learning Lab report
