PBL or PB&J?
…if you have a project, or project-based learning approach. Project-based learning final product at Cabot School: evidence of learning, research, reflection, growth, creativity during the project. Is the project at…
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Changing the who, the what, and the when
…8:00-8:30: Rotation. Based on culture-building activities such as the Circle of Power and Respect and a team-based Town Meeting. 8:30-9:30: Workshops! Students participate in self-directed learning activities or small group…
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Top 10 ways to spend a snow day
…us!) #6. Planning my next visit to a Learning Lab VT site How inquiry questions work in Learning Lab VT Learning Lab VT is a statewide learning community of educators…
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Culminating Events for Project-Based Learning
…for this event that celebrates the projects and the learning in an authentic, community based forum. All along, it’s been a strong motivator for scholars, grounding the relevant work they’ve…
Read moreFacilitating community conversations about education
…through deliberation and recommendations or by working with students via internships, service learning, and community-based projects. Many if not most of them may feel that much of their own schooling,…
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How to throw culminating events — online!
…bit of planning and pivoting. So, rewind! What are culminating events? They’re the lovely finish line of a project-based learning unit. They celebrate the projects and the learning in an…
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What’s your inquiry question?
…with the help of visiting educators and students. And field trips! How inquiry questions work in Learning Lab VT Learning Lab VT is a statewide learning community of educators curious…
Read more5.1 Engaging Pedagogies for All
…that. Please add your own in the comments and let us know what we’ve missed! Project-based learning In Project-based learning, students identify a question they want to answer and then…
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Creating your school plan for distance learning with limited internet access
…menu of learning experience ideas created by White River Valley Middle School teachers. Have students pick at least one activity to do, then record their learning on the distance learning…
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#vted Reads with Elijah Hawkes
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…we could learn from. So, the students at the tech center helped make the food for the evening. And the students from some of the project-based learning classes helped provide…
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Pivoting! to remote PBL
Oh, remember back when we had our project-based learning culminating events all mapped out? Students presenting at Dynamic Landscapes! A school wide community celebration of Cabot Leads! Presentations at Cultivating…
Read moreStephanie Zuccarello Learning Lab 1.0
…where learning, experiences, and pacing is individualized? Let’s strengthen our relationships with our community and build community partnerships where students can investigate, design, and showcase their learning through meaningful experiences…
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Introducing our Outdoor and Place-Based Learning Toolkit
…to being outside for humans’ wellbeing and for students’ learning. We’ve collected our favorite blog posts – find the toolkit’s permanent link here. Outdoor and place-based learning are tightly connected…
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Culturally Responsive Instruction and Assessment
…our own ways of knowing, being, and learning in order to meet the needs of our students and build on their cultural ways of knowing, being, and learning. Hold up……
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Video evidence & reflection for student-led conferences
…your thinking) visible. Make your learning process and your growth visible. The learning story can become an inspiration for others, when you share and make your learning trials, obstacles and…
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Real-world problems and project-based learning
…relevant and authentic problem-solving task with scientific inquiry and communication outcomes. It’s Project-Based Learning at its best. What makes project-based learning useful for young adolescents? One of the keys of…
Read moreA community-based interdisciplinary unit
…deepening students’ connection to their community. They called the unit “I Belong”. It provided students with tech-rich opportunities to engage with the small and rural community of their town. When…
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Meet Learning Lab VT 2019!
Now that you understand the why of proficiency-based and personalized learning, are you ready to see the how? Learning Lab VT throws open the doors of classrooms around Vermont, so…
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Voices Heard: learning from our students
…connect educators and students in a community committed to frank conversations that honor, and help improve, teaching and learning now and throughout the school year. Most recently, we’ve met…
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#vted Reads: Hemingway, with Elijah Hawkes
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…we’ve had what we call The Project-Based Learning Lab at Randolph Union which we staff with an administrator who supports teachers in designing courses that are project based in that…
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Project-Based Learning
…to support PBL Project based learning in the primary grades Examples of Exciting PBL These stories describe some real-world examples of Project-Based Learning. Project-based learning: Extreme weather PBL unit How…
Read moreWhat is Learning Lab?
…mindsets and skills of student-centered learning. Educators use our learning scales to guide and track their learning. Committed to a creating a trusting learning community so educators are game for…
Read moreCommunity-based learning
…learned from a community conversation on race Confronting climate change in the classroom What I Learned at the Youth Climate Strike (re)Building community How to create empathy with your community…
Read moreHow schools can conduct a community conversation
…rote-based system is not just bad for hiring, but “also bad for the soul.” Yet, the film did provide an accessible and positive depiction of project based learning. Principals Amy…
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Fostering a Sound Culture at Hazen: Youth Voices and the Sounding Board Project
…for learning? School-wide initiatives include student-led parent/guardian dialogues, independent-based learning projects, narrative grade reports and digital Personalized Learning Plan and Portfolio Process (PLPPP’s). Faculty and staff from every content area…
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Equity, identity & art
…Nold and her 6th grade students have tackled these topics together as a courageous learning community that was built intentionally over the course of the year. They showed that not…
Read moreWhat goes into measuring the success of edtech?
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…a whole mandate to get us towards personalized learning. Were we so far behind in personalized learning that that is what spurred Act 77 and the Personalized Learning Plan Mandate?…
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Outdoor and Place-Based Learning Toolkit
…to being outside for humans’ wellbeing and for students’ learning. Outdoor and place-based learning are tightly connected with so many other things we hold dear. Understanding our place in the…
Read moreService learning
…this service learning template to explore community strengths, then on to needs, learning goals, plans, projects and reflections. Start Here Here’s a Service Learning 101 post with clear steps to…
Read morePlanning a PBL unit
Resources to tackle project-based learning Welcome to the PBL Highway, my new series aimed at helping you on the road to project-based learning! Setting up a student-driven, rigorous, community-focused project-based…
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Rethinking assessment to rebalance education
…stakeholders co-design a path forward, building something that meets the unique needs of their learning community with the unique assets of that community. This is what makes the Street Data…
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#vted Reads: Dive Into Inquiry
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…the work. I think one of the other interesting things about teachers playing different roles when we’re focusing on inquiry, when we’re using inquiry to guide learning and personalized learning…
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Trauma-informed personalized learning
…personalized learning. I’ve been involved in thousands of conversations with educators from dozens of schools about personalized learning, but I have never before viewed those conversations through a trauma-informed lens….
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Centering care and love
…build community this year? Pull it into the curriculum. What would it look like to center community care in project-based learning? Communities do so much for the common good: public…
Read moreJ-Term at Hazen Union
…applied learning seminars. Based off the interests, strengths, and passions of our students, seminars offered will be led by staff and community members to provide opportunities for meaningful learning experiences…
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A tale of two tech tools
…of community members and peers. And each student was tasked with creating a visually appealing and engaging digital presentation. The audience provided structured feedback based on clear learning targets to…
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Use your makerspace for instructional shifts this year
…makerspace? Did you know that you can use your makerspace for instructional shifts? This includes shifts to: project-based learning; more constructivist learning; learner-centered learning; more student voice and choice; universal…
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3 strategies to create supportive structures during project time
Why structure? One of the most intimidating things about starting to do service and project based learning in the classroom is how to structure the time. One thing I have…
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Introducing: asset mapping
…transportation, ice rinks, good roads, sidewalks, gardens) social/community/cultural assets (churches, clubs, community activities, community organizations, ceremonies) more! With those ideas, have students list as many assets as they can in…
Read moreWinooski’s Graduate Proficiencies & Graduate Expectations
What proficiency-based learning looks like Winooski Middle and High School, in bustling Winooski, VT, has been quietly making the journey to proficiency-based learning and proficiency-based graduation requirements for the past…
Read moreWhat does integrated studies look like at Flood Brook?
…project-based learning? 5 lessons learned from an integrated middle school PBL unit: Reflections from the Burke Town School Kick off project-based learning with a community event: Hope launches in the…
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#vted Reads with Jess Lifshitz
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…with alongside of our students, right? And so you don’t need to know everything. You just have to, you know, use that instructional time for your learning and their learning…
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Kick off project-based learning with a community event
…design the space for the community bike shop. How would you make a space that the community can use to fix their bikes?” Everywhere I turned, groups of students were…
Read moreInteractive map tools for creating deeper place-based learning
…look like to tap into that urge as it pertains to physical landscapes? Yes indeedy, folks, it’s time once again to talk place-based learning and edtech. Why “place-based learning +…
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Place-Based, De-Colonized Ecology in Middle School
…for their learning; whether or not they talk about their material outside of my class and make connections between what they’re learning and other topics. For these questions, I had…
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Personalized learning in the spring garden
…learning show up in that little vignette? student voice co-designed curriculum project-based learning service learning team teaching. It’s everywhere. A garden can be so much more than a garden. It…
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How to make real, sustainable change in the Northeast Kingdom
…the Kingdom each day. This project-based learning packs a punch By using project-based learning as a framework for Burke Town School’s Global Goals, educator Morgan Moore provided students with elements…
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What if you could have Town Meeting Day every week?
…community rather than as authority figures. In this moment more than any other, the three homerooms of the Upper Unit feel like a community. A school-based Town Meeting provides a…
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…She has an important role as an activist in her community, right, because she is working with the elders and the people in her community to stand up against the…
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Re-connect & re-imagine this return to school.
…I plan for remote learning? Should I prepare for in-person learning? Or both? What is an educator to do? The solution I’m offering is the Hyperdoc: an organized way to…
Read moreRethinking school schedules
…a highly personalized learning opportunity. Hopefully they get get you thinking about what is possible. If you embrace project-based learning, 40, 42, or 47-minute chunks of time just don’t support…
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Scaffolding success for self-directed learners
…really curious about that. When we in Vermont started to transition towards a personalized learning environment that included proficiency-based learning, the Vermont Agency of Education identified what many of us…
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What can we learn from summer unschooling?
…for learning. Whether it’s via micro-credentials or enhanced transcripts, proficiency-based assessments make it possible for us to design ways of both providing guidance on and pushing students toward skills-based self-directed…
Read moreThe Maker Movement and transferable skills
…centered learning activities can help students reflect on and thus strengthen their learning. Furthermore, documenting maker-centered learning can create evidence of growth and proficiency that students can add to their…
Read moreEntry events for project-based learning
…planning stages of project-based learning. They’re just as much a part of PBL as the research, rubrics, and community connections. So what can an entry event look like? Take a…
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Negotiated curriculum and project-based learning
…towards a democratic classroom, a place where students can advocate for themselves and their learning interests, goals and styles. It’s an important piece of the personalized learning plan (PLP) picture….
Read morePersonalized STEM learning at Essex High School
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…biology — by working with community partners during the school day. Come hear how Essex High School is jump-starting personalized STEM learning with students working toward digital portfolios, project-based learning…
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Student intervention for anti-racist education
…of transferable skills. Something based on the Teaching Tolerance Social Justice Standards, for example. Professional learning on the above content. This is especially important for teachers who will center this…
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“The Culture Code”, with Bill Rich
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…Jeanie talks with noted Vermont educator and consultant Bill Rich (twitter: @rhlearning). Bill is a longtime-classroom teacher who now works with schools, providing guidance on brain-based learning. He’s also the…
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#VTED Reads: Care Work with Dr. Winnie Looby
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…a few years ago, I did some research around culturally responsive research, like how you might be a researcher, academic who wants to do research in a community, that community…
Read moreX is for eXtra credit
…is anytime, anywhere learning, how can we quantify certain activities as eXtraneous to that learning space? Is extra credit over? As edtech and the increasing movement towards 1:1 computing devices…
Read moreProject-based learning (PBL)
…PBL unit Entry events for project-based learning Brainstorming and Research in PBL Scaffolds to support PBL learners 8 methods for reflection in project-based learning Assessment in Project-Based Learning Culminating Events…
Read moreCh 7: PLPs & Proficiency-Based Assessment
…is the assessment of that learning. It can take the form of formative (lots!) and summative assessment. See our new toolkits on proficiency-based learning, including specific kits on learning goals,…
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