The unexpected joys of screentime in a pandemic
…and quarantine. Not only is that lonely and depressing, but it’s potentially damaging (.pdf). When adolescence is a time for social interaction and building your identity as a social being,…
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Challenging Simplified Notions of Health Equity in the Middle Grades
…that’s just unfortunate. Like, that’s not targeting any particular social identity group. But it might be someone doesn’t eat as much fruit as would be recommended because they don’t like…
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Summer Reading 2021
…so good. The main character, Bug has experienced an important loss and she’s grieving and searching for her identity in a small town in Vermont. It’s a great story that…
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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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#VTED Reads: Care Work with Dr. Winnie Looby
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…disabilities or disabled people, do we use identity first language, like, disabled person? Or do we use people first language like people with disabilities? And I wondered if you had…
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Introducing our Equity Toolkit
…to bring greater justice to our society. We promote equity through practices represented in our toolkits such as positive Community and Culture and Identity work for inclusiveness and belonging; Proficiency-Based…
Read more2.2 Avoid the Pitfalls!
…know what they are interested in, or what kind of goals they want to set. Start with engaging learning like identity projects or project-based learning. Then invite students to reflect…
Read moreStephanie Zuccarello Learning Lab 1.0
…questions and lean on others for help. For this reason, in the 2017-2018 school year, the fifth and sixth grade students have spent time throughout the year exploring their identity,…
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Equity toolkit
…students to analyze and act to bring greater justice to our society. We promote equity through practices represented in our toolkits such as positive Community and Culture and Identity work…
Read moreMaking the most of twitter in your classroom
…also connected to Twitter interactions. Students learned other basics about social media interactions: the importance of using initials to protect their identity and that is not necessarily a good idea…
Read moreSeparate Science in New Zealand
…tech-centered middle school, a K-8 that concentrated on philosophy and the whole child, and a high school that allowed student cultural identity to be central to how they did education….
Read moreV is for Voice Recordings
…growth and discovery of identity, it’s easy for us to ask them to make and appear in videos, but in a lot of cases, students have a complicated relationship with…
Read moreScreencast-o-matic on the Macbook
…be great for middle-level adolescents reflecting on identity. Getting set up with Screencast-o-matic on the MacBook 1. Install the software by clicking the big blue Start Recording button. Although this…
Read moreWhat are some good tools for studying hurricanes?
…what they like and what they want to do. Multi-part projects that allow students to specialize while collaborating help them form identity while building community. With this project happening in…
Read moreClimate, Community and Voice from Day 1
…leverage their teaching team for steady, manageable change. Or how you can use identity activities to launch (or re-launch) your PLP process. Or how negotiating team rules and norms with…
Read more8 tips for creating classroom routines and norms
…two a day. 5. Show students themselves in this space Build community with identity activities such as sharing student art, labels, and getting feedback from students about spaces. These labels…
Read moreHow to evaluate student-led conferences
… With middle school student identity being so frangible and changing, a private digital format like this supports students in giving their school constructive criticism without possibly intimidating or distracting…
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4 ways to make math more relevant
…events data, maps, charts and tables to explore issues As a response to the violence in Charlottesville, many teachers were sharing resources for teaching about issues of history, race, identity…
Read moreWhat are the benefits of taking Genius Hour school-wide?
…launched a schoolwide Genius Hour this year. Branding gives a complex entity or process an accessible identity. Genius Hour can feel like an amorphous undertaking, but this branding approach supports…
Read more4 end-of-year activities for advisory
…keeps it private. Students then ask yes or no questions trying to determine the student’s identity. Keeping the teacher as facilitator, he or she can ensure that statements are always…
Read moreSummer reading time!
…struggle with his identity and his family is central, but there is a second story line involving a faerie queen that is both weird and fascinating. Also, Ness writes gay…
Read moreThe #everydaycourage of talking about race in Vermont schools
…as its core purpose the silencing or subjugation of others on the basis of their sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, race, color, religion, national origin, immigration status, age,…
Read more#vted leads the way with #everydaycourage
…“In an increasingly fragmented society, our public schools are one of the few places where people of every socioeconomic class, political perspective, race, religion, gender identity, and disability status come…
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…race and identity, with compassion, respect, and empathy. We see it when one teacher says to another, with respect, “I feel differently about that, and here is why.” We see…
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Developing empathy for your community
…Burlington, led by Christie Nold, used the model to create The Humans of Verve, to build community and identity within their middle school team of students. Thus the Humans of…
Read more3 ways to use Flipgrid for reflection
…ability to enhance/manipulate your images seems to resonate. (Think: Snapchat, or instagram). This also feeds into the middle-level urge to explore different aspects of your identity. Here’s what students say…
Read moreStudents blogging for an authentic audience
…identity/code-switching, female friendship, and sustaining community, among others. Moving beyond the “Page on a Passage” As I planned the unit, I decided I wanted something other than the usual brief…
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5 resources for building community
…from The Sum of Us (.pdf) breaks down how and why to avoid unintentional marginalization. This guide has sections on major categories of identity, such as gender, race, class, ability,…
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#vted Reads: The Power of Moments, with Rachel Mark
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…a moment of pride for her students. They got to get up and teach the adults in their building about different identity groups and how they could think more deeply…
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3 tools for exploring character with middle schoolers
…guiding students through an exploration of their identity, values and character strengths. And spoiler alert: they think it’s pretty cool, too! My students made visual representations of some of…
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The athlete, the artist & the PLP
…for her Passion Project, she found a way to combine the two disciplines. And embracing these two important parts of her identity gave her a lot more to talk about…
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#vted Reads: The 57 Bus with Caitlin Classen
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…and gender identity. The other thing you touched upon that I think is really interesting is Sasha’s parents. This feels to me like a great book for parents of transgender…
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#vted Reads: Hey, Kiddo with Mike Hill
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…our bodies. Biologically and physiologically, we were going through an identity crisis and it was literally showing up on our faces like pimples, growth spurts, our voices were changing, hormones….
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#vted Reads: Pride with Meg Allison
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…with Catcher in the Rye. When you think about a young man’s sense of identity. His first forays into freedom. Trevor Noah’s memoir is about growing up in South Africa,…
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#vted Reads at Teen Lit Mob 2019!
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…about Black identity, especially in Vermont. I can imagine those essays fitting in in a class that has anything to do with diversity and race — like a social studies…
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3 ways to ensure equity is at the heart of your work
…you into deeper conversations about diversity in all areas of your school community. Diverse Books for Conversations for conversations around identity. “Sometimes you can do everything right and things will…
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#vted Reads: No Fixed Address with Annie Brabazon
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…our students without houses are living with family members or in houses that are too small. They’re sharing homes with other people. I’m thinking about, how the terminology impacts self-identity…
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#vted Reads: Dreadful Young Ladies, with Sarah Birgé
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…was really interesting. It could be a really interesting book to use with a class. On identity. Sarah: And like we said earlier, grappling with something scary, be it a…
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A critical lens on project-based learning
…policies. Teaching Tolerance standards include identity, diversity, justice and action and urge meeting these standards across grade levels, including saying, “Students will plan and carry out collective action against bias…
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Looking at PLPs
…we help them? Like anything, the more attention you give something, the more it grows. Often, teachers launch PLPs with an identity activity, and then it lies dormant until student…
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#vted Reads: Juliet Takes a Breath
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…protecting someone and letting them play with their identity and their language a little to see what fits. Jeanie: Yes, I’ve had that experience actually in schools of using one…
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#vted Reads: Guts, with Lindsey Halman
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…try out who you are and who you want to be, and get that feedback. Just both forming your identity and getting the feedback. But also then, you know, having…
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#vted Reads with Mike McRaith
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…feels good to have an identity, and this is who we are — we’re the tigers! we’re the lions! Or whatever. And that’s great for community, but a shortcut way…
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#vted Reads with Aimee Arandia Østensen
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…land. I’ve been doing a lot of reading and thinking about colonization and grappling with my own identity as a settler colonist, right, in this land. So buying this home…
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Centering care and love
…unit on Identity and Community is another jumping-off point for learning about community and belonging. What questions about community are your students asking? How might they feel empowered to positively…
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#vted Reads with Jo Knowles
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…bathing suit. So she’s got these hand-me-downs and she feels so self-conscious. I mean that was me, when I was 13, I was so uncomfortable with my identity, my body,…
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De-Colonizing Your Thanksgiving Curriculum
…or Genocide: Identity Implications of Silence In American Thanksgiving Commemorations” by Tuğçe Kurtis, Glenn Adams, and Michael Yellow Bird “Teaching Thanksgiving in a Socially Responsible Way” from Teaching Tolerance “Don’t…
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How to have difficult conversations in the classroom
…more exposed to the world and actively working to formulate their identity. This combination puts them in a unique and in some ways ideal position to learn how to engage…
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“Because internet”: learning to communicate in different online spaces
…You got to know them. You did some identity exercises. As you built your tiny community of learners, you set some classroom norms. As a community, you talked about the…
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Lessons learned from a community conversation on race
…classroom, check out this unit on equity and identity from 6th grade social studies teacher Christie Nold). We also wanted to make sure that people entered the conversation with the…
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Resources for responding to January 6th
…into anti-racist education? Student intervention for anti-racist education Using art to talk about identity and race (video) NEW: Lessons learned from a community conversation on race Powerful op-ed by Black…
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Culturally responsive practices for equity in the classroom
…may participate in youth culture, Vermonter redneck culture, sports cultures, etc. Like heritage cultures, these cultures can provide curriculum relevance, broaden perspectives, and strengthen identity and self-awareness. They are deserving…
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How to Build An Anti-Racist Bookshelf
…your teaching team. We offer two-hour, half-day and full-day in-services, on topics ranging from the anti-racist bookshelf, through to personalized learning, student identity, project-based learning, proficiency-based assessment, and many more….
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#vted Reads: The Dark Fantastic
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…excellent writers today and the way that writing is happening, it’s exploring identity and experience in different ways. And that is so rich. I’m one of those people that might…
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#vted Reads: Brave Like That
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…books is like third things as ways to, as safe ways to talk about concepts about concepts of identity or who am I. How am I showing up? How, is…
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Culturally Responsive Instruction and Assessment
…to which students feel they belong or how the teacher’s instruction affirms cultural identity (see, for example, the Copilot-Elevate measures). Teachers may also employ more targeted data gathering through action…
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#vted Reads: with Alex Shevrin Venet
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…perpetuate this harm such as making derogatory remarks about children’s that racial identity or family school systems such as rules, policies, and procedures can cause trauma and harm. For example,…
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Fostering a Sound Culture at Hazen: Youth Voices and the Sounding Board Project
…and grade level prioritize tasks centered around student voice and identity. Multimedia projects, including interviewing and audio projects in partnership with Vermont Folklife Center (VFC) and Vermont Public Radio (VPR),…
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#vted Reads: Community Schools Blueprint with Kathleen Kesson
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…racial identity what are the strengths in your community and that we really see those with a strengths-based lens. Kathleen: Right. Jeanie: Because so often marginalized people are further marginalized…
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Rethinking assessment to rebalance education
…of context and identity that are too fuzzy from a bird’s eye view. To address equity challenges and fully honor the humanity of our students, superficiality will no longer cut…
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Why Advisory matters so much
…to be fully invested in learning, make better choices, and feel happier at school. (CDC, 2011). Moreover, for young adolescents, being connected to others is essential for healthy identity development….
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Winter Break Reading & Listening: 2022 Edition
…that are chock full of brilliant scholarship and exquisite writing. They challenge some of my ideas about how identity operates, about how and why anti-Black racism arose in America, and…
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Introducing our new Advisory toolkit
…community all day long . That’s why our Identity toolkit, Community & Culture toolkit and our Adult Culture toolkit also have wisdom to offer on this topic. How do you…
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Introducing our Outdoor and Place-Based Learning Toolkit
…with so many other things we hold dear. Understanding our place in the wider outdoor world is important for building community together and for students to explore their identity ….
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