3 easy tech tools for PLP reflections
…and to collect evidence for their PLPs. What’s growing in your Answer Garden? Show us what “gratitude” looks like Students in Mr. Grogan’s class used their Chromebooks to define the…
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Sharing your school’s Passion Projects
…the years, teachers at Flood Brook had also worked with students to create Personal Learning Plans (PLPs), but were finding that students weren’t invested in the process or product. Fast…
Read moreWelcome to your in-school internship
…their internship as part of their PLPs. If offered the position students get to sign a contract, complete with a detailed job description. Like these: A sample contract for an…
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3 strategies to create supportive structures during project time
…students to stop and take the next 10 minutes to record their thinking (possibly from a reflection menu) on a platform of choice or other procedure for PLPs and reflections…
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Video evidence & reflection for student-led conferences
…conferences. Let’s examine how one middle school in Vermont invites their learners to create video evidence and reflection for their PLPs. Now let’s see how Peoples Academy Middle Level fosters…
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Who should be assessing student-led conferences?
…conferences helped families engage more with student PLPs. Families want a bigger voice in their students’ education, and this is a perfect time to open that door. Your students An…
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4 ways to re-take taking attendance
…Know Your Students As we’re all aware, your students’ personal learning plans, their PLPs, are living, breathing documents that they have open throughout the day, the better to pen journal…
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Building a blended & hybrid teaching toolkit
…PLPs Portfolio Development – evidence, growth, reflection I intentionally amplify student agency by building in choice of subject, path, and pace. Project-based learning Service learning Hyperdocs Choice boards 6 Student-Centered…
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The Return of the Light
…plans (PLPs) or portfolios set up it will be even easier to document and reflect. (If you’re just getting started with PLPs, check out The Definition of a PLP for…
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Setting goals with students for the new year
…learning doable. Did we mention how important that is for young adolescents? For instance, we know that in Vermont schools implementing Personal Learning Plans (PLPs), student goal setting and reflection…
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Service learning (during a pandemic)
…their PLPs and tag transferable skills they are using. 3. Try a Joy Project Lastly, where have you found joy during this pandemic? Baking, playing the guitar, reading, knitting? Right…
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From the innovativeEd mailbag: Sustainably Yours
…go outside and we think about climate change together, but how can I take it further? (Does this connect with PLPs??) What am I missing? How can I tie it…
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Introducing our updated Identity Toolkit
…spaces for discussions about race and other forms of oppression in our classrooms?” Includes conference presentation, transcript, and slides. Google Tools for personalized learning plans (PLPs) A conference presentation from…
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How to get students to communicate with families
…families know where to go to get the latest updates from their students. But best of all, these messages can be included in the students’ PLPs. Short, personal, and emotional…
Read moreH is for Hangout
…and if PLPs are your thing (Hi Vermont!) the first Hangout of the new season is taking place September 24th, supported by us. Plan to attend! We’ll have more details…
Read moreL is for Learning Management System (LMS)
…as needed/desired basis and make PLPs/portfolios more manageable and thus deeper. But that’s another blog post. 🙂 Need to catch up on your edtech ABCs? Check out the full series…
Read moreR is for REAL Reflection
…Personal Learning Plans (PLPs) are largely a space for students to express their goals, establish action steps, and reflect on evidence of progress. Reflection should happen on a day-to-day basis…
Read moreT is for Timelines
Timeline tools for transformative learning Timeline tools can serve two important purposes: concrete help with project planning (for PLPs, 1:1 rollouts, PBL) and for displaying evidence of learning in an…
Read moreAugmented reality and student identity
…teachers were inspired by Thinglink as well and are experimenting with students creating Thinglinks, much like Lori did, to add to their Personal Learning Plans (PLPs). John created this example…
Read moreExploring digital citizenship as a form of literacy
…earlier, when we’re doing our Google Docs presentation, “This Is Me”. That was part of their PLPs and they were trying to come up with information on who they were…
Read more8th grade arts and citizenship
…included as evidence in student PLPs, specifically around the aspect of transferable skills as they’re arising from learning to use the digital media tools. It’s been a wonderful opportunity for…
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Community Based Learning in Vermont: What’s going on?
…and PLPs, they would be able to better set goals and targets for their workplace learning. Many teachers around the table voiced interest and recognition for making similar shifts in…
Read moreLearn Like a Pirate: Key takeaways
…order to make it better How can I help my peers do better? Develop e-Portfolios (or PLPs, in Vermont) that grow over time and feature deep reflection. Each entry of…
Read moreTeaching copyright with video mashups
…more traditional assessments. The students posted their reflections, along with the link to their video mash-up, in their PLPs. Check out Emma, Ella and Lisa’s video — one of the…
Read moreFinding ways to encourage student leadership
…policy around technology use in both schools. VT’s PLP Student (Re)Design Days In Vermont, Personal Learning Plans (PLPs) are challenging our schools. Act 77 gives us permission to re-emphasize many…
Read moreTackling school change as a community
…yeah. Maya: We talked a lot about 21st Century Skills, and passion projects, PLPs, and how we’re going to move towards that. Life: So did you feel like you were…
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8 methods for reflection in project-based learning
…can write blog posts about their weekly PBL work and include videos, pictures, and link to sites and their work. It can be part of their PLPs, can serve as…
Read moreiLead: a model for service learning and leadership
…of course! Students complete interest inventories and learning profiles at the beginning of the year. They explore who they are and share that with the class: in their PLPs, in…
Read moreHow to win the VT Tech Bridge Building competition
…to do it.” Reflection required “We also had to reflect on it on our PLPs, our personal learning portfolios, for Opportunity Time goals and our academic and evidence goals, so…
Read moreDynamic Landscapes 2017: the power of authentic #vted student voice
…Middle School sharing their PLPs, and how proficiencies intersect: https://twitter.com/hennesss/status/867019058662842368 And so many more. A huge THANK YOU to those students! Plus: Student instructors https://twitter.com/dsmacdonald/status/867027820018634754 As usual, the Dynamic Landscapes…
Read moreDigital badges as evidence of flexible pathways
…with this profound shift in education as we know it? Why pair badges with flexible pathways? When we imagine the requirements of Act 77 — PBGRs, PLPs, and Flexible Pathways…
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How can students teach educators about social identity?
…PLPs, and weigh in on their school’s re-design. The Tuttle sixth graders presented to their school board on how empowering it was for them to be able to lead the…
Read moreChanging the who, the what, and the when
…book groups, learning is highly personalized. It’s like PLPs on a micro scale. “Students pursue what they need, when they need it,” according to Williams. Students tackle numeracy and literacy…
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“The Culture Code”, with Bill Rich
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…to get this PLPs and these are crucial!” (And by the way, they’re beautiful. They’re elegant. We’re lucky to be in Vermont.) But it’s whatever the focus of the work…
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The athlete, the artist & the PLP
…planning, and reflection cycle. Check out Julia’s project reflection sheet, below. There you can see how she documented her journey. How can you help students enjoy PLPs and student-led conferences?…
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#vted Reads: Protocols in the Classroom, with Terra Lynch
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…put it in the recycling? Does it go into portfolios? Those are some of the questions too, in terms of learning. Protocols and Personalized Learning Plans (PLPs) Jeanie: That raises…
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How to make real, sustainable change in the Northeast Kingdom
…murals, assembling a beehive, and planting seeds. Along the way, they documented evidence and reflected on their growth on their PLPs (personalized learning plans). They also considered transferable skills of…
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What do curiosity projects look like?
…exhibition to showcase the projects. Polaris team families and 5th graders from schools across the district showed up to learn. Students also added the projects to their PLPs and shared…
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#vted Reads: The Benefits of Being an Octopus
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…projects or PLPs that we’re starting to see more kids taking on content that they really like. Jeanie: I was talking to a friend who was saying that her middle…
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Trauma-informed personalized learning
…keeping a distance might be a survival mechanism. “Similarly, some kids really struggle with the ‘strengths-based’ part of PLPs because they have a damaged self-concept and don’t know how to…
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Preparing for remote learning
…Learning Plans (PLPs). This way advisors all have access to the PLP materials and can deliver them to their individual advisees, this model could work in this situation as well!…
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Introducing: The Joy Project
…way to share, like Book Creator, about this project, and post on their PLPs. Structure structure structure Here’s a full-fledged, education-forward Google Doc template with all the bells and whistles…
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Project-based learning at home
…be the perfect content for my students’ — ahem, I mean, my children’s — PLPs. I gleefully invited the kids to begin thinking about how they could document their projects…
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5 ways to bring closure to this school year
…students add a capstone piece to their PLPs for the year. Schools such as Burke Town School, in West Burke VT, have used online student led conferences as a way…
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Re-connect & re-imagine this return to school.
…world, and share who they are and what they’ve learned through their PLPs, and via student-led conferences (whatever those will look like). What are your students learning and doing during…
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#vted Reads with Elijah Hawkes
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…work they’re *not* producing and, like, this kind of deep full listening to kids. And that reminded me a lot of Acts 77 and PLPs or personalization, right? And that…
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#vted Reads about PBIS
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…or PLPs, we often think of it as personalized learning portfolios or plans. Providing flexible learning pathways, so that learning is more personally meaningful to learners. Proficiency or competency-based assessment;…
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“Because internet”: learning to communicate in different online spaces
…students to blog updates to their PLPs, to document their research work, and as contributions to group work. And part of that is encouraging them to comment each others’ blogposts….
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Personalized learning in the spring garden
…the school garden to her Humanities curriculum. An information writing unit is coming up, and students have already identified goals in their PLPs they can tie in. The following day,…
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#vted Reads: with Bill Rich
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…this. We’ve got PLPs. We’ve got this. We’ve got formative assessment. We’ve got different. We’ve got personalization. And we have this incredible architecture of language that we have put around…
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Building resilience (for all) through personal efficacy
…portfolios or PLPs. Moreover, during student-led conferences, or even a Best Part of My Week routine, the powerful narratives students generate about efficacy resonate strongly with parents. Aguilar’s other recommendations…
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Transferable Skill Deep Dive: Fostering communication
…next steps might you take? And students are reflecting out loud, on their PLPs, or with their peers to further strengthen their communication skills. A teacher friend of mine says,…
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Centering Relationships & Routines
…throughout the day when we take the time to get to know one another. Consider how PLPs or identity units might help you get to know students, or how student…
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NEW Essential Skills & Dispositions Toolkit
…PLPs and Student-Led Conferences are used, students can demonstrate, share and report on their development of essential skills and dispositions. Please connect with us and share your work with essential…
Read moreStudent-led conferences: soup to nuts
…(PLPs). Using technology to help student-led conferences run more smoothly Got shy middle schoolers? Want an artifact of learning for digital portfolios? Screencasting for student-led conferences can be the answer….
Read moreThe Three Pillars of Personalized Learning
…with Google Classroom for PLPs Looking at PLPs PLPs in Seesaw 3 easy tech tools for PLP reflections How can students reflect on their PLPs? Flexible Pathways Prioritizing daily movement…
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Read moreTarrant Institute for Innovative Education
…and storytelling support to educators. We believe that effective personalized learning is possible; it depends on personal learning plans (PLPs), flexible pathways for learning, and proficiency-based education, implemented school-wide. We…
Read moreChapter 3: Laying the Groundwork for Personalized Learning
…Institute, 2017 What Vermont Students Really Think about Personal Learning Plans, Susan Hennessey, Tarrant Institute, 2016 Use a Student Leadership Team for Feedback on PLPs, Life LeGeros, Tarrant Institute, 2017…
Read moreChapter 9: Sustaining Innovation in Your Classroom, Team, or School
…Ed 2.0: More Learning, Less Suffering, Life LeGeros, Tarrant Institute, 2018 (Re)Designing PLPs with Students, Susan Hennessey, Tarrant Institute, 2016 Helpful Partners Middle Grades Collaborative PLP Pathways Association for Middle…
Read more1.3 New Student & Teacher Roles
…hear it, too! What roles do you play most often? How might you shift your role to support student self-direction? Let’s go: In chapter 2, we’ll look at how PLPs…
Read moreCh 5: Flexing Your Pathways
…PLPs. These, in turn, are precursors to exploring what a flexible pathway might look like for each student. Say for instance, you as a student are passionate about making electronic…
Read moreCh 6: Scaffolding for Equitable, Deeper Learning
…also badging. …and the workshop model. Now tell us How do you scaffold student learning? Let’s go: Bring it down towards the home stretch, by connecting PLPs with proficiency-based learning….
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