…Bennington Rutland Supervisory Union, Vermont iLead: A Model for Service Learning and Leadership, Katy Farber, Tarrant Institute, 2017 What Vermont Students Really Think about Personal Learning Plans, Susan Hennessey, Tarrant…
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…service based learning is often where the big learning happens. Dewey even said, ” We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.” What are we looking…
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…deeper learning, can increase student agency, engagement, and purpose. It illustrates how educators are leveraging personalized learning plans to place students in the driver’s seat of their own learning. It…
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…not the initial focus of your conversation and feedback. So then why do we start service, project, and problem-based learning with a problem? Avoiding the “Deficit Perspective” Many of us…
Read moreMakerspace learning at Proctor Elementary In this final post of our series on how maker-centered learning can help students develop transferable skills, we take a look at Integrative and Informed…
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…student exists in: their family, their peer group, their place of worship, their service organization. How can we support and validate the learning done in those communities when the communities…
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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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…having her behavior called out all the time. And of course, we hate when students do that. But Zora is learning it from the source. She’s learning it from the…
Read more…Rachel Mark and Jeanie Phillips, Tarrant Institute Service Learning Planning Template, Katy Farber, Tarrant Institute How to Plan a Service Learning Project in 5 Stages, Jeanie Phillips, Tarrant Institute, 2018…
Read more…how we might stop the exodus (Corwin Press, 2010); Change the World with Service Learning (Rowman Littlefield) and its new edition, Real and Relevant: a guide to service and project-based…
Read more…of student-centered learning Episode 39: What students want you to know about school Episode 38: #vted Reads: Check Please, with Peter Langella Episode 37: All about service learning with Katy…
Read moreIt takes a courageous village In order for student centered learning to happen, we have to invest in explicitly teaching (and reteaching) routines, expectations, and behaviors for learning. The beginning…
Read more…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,…
Read more…been pretty successful with that so far. To continue learning and growing throughout the school year, we are using a group blog together to make our learning and thinking…
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…boricua. She’s Puerto Rican. That’s a word that a lot of Puerto Rican folks use to describe themselves. She’s kind of coming into herself throughout the entire book. And learning…
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…quickly added distance learning pathway offerings from Vermont Virtual Learning Cooperative and Edmentum. Fifty eight students are currently engaged in the distant learning pathway. North Country predicts that COVID will…
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Testing helped me be successful in school. And it was horrible for my learning. I was good at tests. The more standardized, the better. Multiple choice questions were my jam….
Read moreEducators are embracing digital tools for planning and sharing Personalized learning plans, or PLPs, are non-traditional pathways by which students can navigate from entrance to graduation in a way that’s…
Read moreJust-in-time learning in its best form is “Just for me” learning. When you learn something because you yearn to understand it, precisely when you need to apply it, you will…
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…this great action research project around self perception, self esteem, social emotional learning in the arts, and how creating inclusive learning environments for students kind of helps kid peer relationships….
Read more…SEL can provide an integrated approach to project-based and service learning, providing meaning and purpose to students. Food for thought Ensuring students feel known calls for systemic change. These educators…
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Hope launches in the Northeast Kingdom As part of participating in the UN’s Global Goals, students at Burke Town School, in West Burke VT, kicked off their service learning projects…
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…teacher. More for the door: Share Your Learning have developed some resources to support educators with virtual exhibitions of learning, virtual student led conferences, and virtual presentations of learning. …
Read more…quest to Build the Perfect Team Interdisciplinary Teaming Personal Learning Framework Project Based Learning Questions to ask about your team Although this shift can feel uncomfortable at first, the trust…
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…coursework, turned in the portfolios and survived their placements, and now they’re all set to take on classrooms of their own. We’ll hear from six amazing pre-service — soon to…
Read more…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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…different schools. That really gets in the way of their learning. It just seems to be present all the time. As I’m sitting with students in my office and I’m…
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…necessary to navigate and understand the instructions for asynchronous learning. In addition, teachers present much of the learning material across content areas in written form. For students who struggle to…
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…PBL in your classroom? Excellent. Use the makerspace greenscreen to create broadcasts of learning. News reports, public service announcements, documentaries, opinion pieces– all can be planned through PBL and created…
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…it like very much portrays education as like just like dumping stuff in brains. And we know that like learning doesn’t happen like that learning doesn’t happen by we can’t…
Read more…type of technology available in the classroom — and in the curriculum — would create a unique learning opportunity. Students would be able to elevate their inquiry-based learning and discover…
Read more…what it would look like. What’s an in-school internship? In St. Albans City’s version of service learning, internships follow a process similar to internships out in the quote-unquote adult world:…
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…there?) and justification for many personalization pedagogies, especially service learning and project based learning. Another salient point from the first part of the book, based on extensive research, is that…
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…or are going to have children. And that is part of my learning; as in listening to my colleague. And because we have a person in power at my school…
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…All those big pictures begin with one school. With one classroom. And one teacher. One decision to try a new approach to negotiated curriculum, or service learning, or self-directed learning….
Read more…as say… learning to type? Learning to give a presentation? How about learning to memorize all the US Presidents?” Some sat there looking blankly at me, and others nodded. I…
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…is delivered — practically overnight. GRCSU is responding to remote learning. I’m fortunate and grateful to have been working with GRCSU for the past three and half years. In the…
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…our listeners? Elijah: Yeah, I talk a little bit about the student, the student portfolio presentations or effectively it’s like a personal learning plan or personal learning portfolio at the…
Read more…the series: Making as evidence of transferable skills Making as evidence of self-direction Making as evidence of problem-solving How making supports service learning How making supports integrative and informed thinking…
Read more…Vermont news station WCAX. During the project, students referred back to this experience frequently. It gave them several things important to successful project-based learning: real-world relevance examples of careers models…
Read more…own educator perspective. I was listing ways that I wanted parents to participate in student learning. I’m also a parent. How do I want to engage in my own daughter’s…
Read more…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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…we do with it? Three Examples of Public Service Announcements (PSAs) Instead, at the end of the unit, what they had a chance to do was create a public service…
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…hoping to sign up for a service learning project. Jade thinks, “This time it’s not a program offering something I need, but it’s about what I can give.” So she…
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…the hill at The Cabot School, the middle grades have been building a service learning project called Cabot Leads. Students apply for any number of jobs in and around the…
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…some amazing products to put the “personal” in PLPs. Launching with staff During a summer in-service, Tuttle’s teacher-led Professional Learning Committee briefly presented the idea of an identity project to…
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…paid to work part-time at the Waterbury Service Center garage. He knows his way around the shop, has learned about persistence and problem-solving, and gleaned plenty of life lessons from…
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…that we are part of; helps students develop an understanding that the world is interconnected; and develops students’ sense of agency and their ability to make a difference through service–learning…
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…flexible pathways. How do we provide personally meaningful learning opportunities for students to be creative in the ways that suit them and knowing that creativity isn’t one size fits all?…
Read more…building their personal learning plans (PLPs) and want to get credit for learning they do both inside and outside of the classroom. Imagine a student who has a passion for…
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QR codes unlock learning anywhere These simple workhorses of technology — ink and blank spaces on a screen or page — can be incredibly powerful in making learning an anytime,…
Read more…educator moving to a proficiency-based learning format and discovering how student proficiency does not often improve without engaging and flexible practice opportunities. Using middle level concepts and brain-based research, changes…
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Like so many students this past year, the 7th and 8th students at Crossett Brook Middle School in Duxbury, Vermont, were in a hybrid mode of learning due to Covid…
Read more…Teaching and Learning, which is a new, competency-based graduate school for pre-service math and science teachers, in close collaboration with MIT. He and his colleagues took an innovative approach to…
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…forward to some in-service planning. I met with the principals of two local schools, one in Concord and one in Gilman — both in Vermont — and started re-designing in-service…
Read moreCreative ways to share learning opportunities Teachers at Lamoille Union Middle/High School learn about the latest tools and resources available to them in a unique and engaging way. Marc Gilbertson,…
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The middle school team at Rutland Town School in Rutland, VT have been working on a more fully integrated implementation of personal learning plans (PLPs) at their school. They’re also…
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…cricket farmers learning how to take care of crickets, and you know, how to how to try to convince people that crickets are food. (Which is as you might imagine…
Read moreHelp your students’ PSAs find their public Student-made PSAs are a great way for students to engage in project-based learning with real-world impact. Especially if they join up with community…
Read more…or problem in the community can be a great catalyst for students to engage in community-based service–learning. At Burke Town School, students invited community partners in as a kickoff event…
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…helpful. What did the action research add to what you had already planned to do this year in terms of implementing your summer learning? Melanie: It forces you to…
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…it seems, is contagious. What is compassion anyway? This celebration was the culminating event of a six week long project-based learning unit on compassion. Nicholson’s class began at the beginning:…
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