…#authentic #community #impact #vted A post shared by Tarrant Institute (@innovativeeducation) on May 16, 2017 at 4:03pm PDT Students at Shelburne Community School demonstrated their problem-solving skills by constructing Google…
Read more…they include participation by families or other interested parties. Student goals and aspirations are valued in the PLPs. The PLP process has been shared with the community; understanding and support…
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…
Read more…in a memo to the Vermont education community. She emphasized conversations with our communities (students included) as a way to find a path to move forward. In part, she stated:…
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…projects. Soon almost every grade 5-6 student was pursuing passions and exploring personal interests. When asked, students often point to project-based learning as encapsulating personalization. Students from Shelburne Community School…
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Use service learning to grow your community What do you do when you’re a 5th-through-8th middle school housed in two separate buildings? If your 7th-and-8th graders are with the high…
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…and the local community and land in a variety of ways. Each year, I posed a big question to my students, and all year we used the question to make…
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Going beyond the gallery walk Exhibition season is upon us! And as you’re making ready to throw open the doors of your school and welcome in the community, let’s look…
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…the administrations, staff, community members, and each other. Students as fundraisers In order to build a coop, Dorset students recognized that they needed support from community partners. A letter-writing campaign…
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…very generically been referring to as our “Community” unit. Here’s a broad overview: Our original goal was to engage 8th grade students by digging into issues within our community connected…
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…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…
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…school community brings in just the tools or expertise you need. Many parents, grandparents, and community members have tools they no longer need or skills they’d like to share. And…
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…beyond our communities. But our communities are also really rich places for those kind of authentic experts. Margi: Definitely. The local community versus the broader community made me think of…
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…book, she identifies in some ways as gay, as queer or part of the LGBTQ community. She has a girlfriend. You find that out like, on page four. And she’s…
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…At the same time, they can provide students with ways to stay in touch with friend networks or connect with their larger community about reading. Let’s read! Did we mention…
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I mean really, how are you? More than anything I wish I could sit down with you, face to face, and have a long chat. I’ve been missing my community:…
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…had almost all of their students in school, something was missing. Although teachers were focusing on building relationships in their classrooms, how would they build community as a middle school?…
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…and dialogue about race are supported by the agreements and compass from Courageous Conversations (See the page on community building at the NMAAHC Talking About Race site if you are…
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…disparities exist? Actionable: What is important to teach our community about health and equity? “Health for All: An Introductory Unit” So the intro unit is called Health for All. And…
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…and designing advisory activities. Learn more about this student leadership and their role in building the advisory culture. When students lead advisory and community meetings, it results in even more…
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…and mirror and observe ourselves. And, yes, there’s so much beauty in this book and how its honor’s the ancestry, and also allows for the creativity, to give the community…
Read more…a system of student record-keeping? Who are the stakeholders in my educational community and what evidence or experiences do they need in order to support the learning I want for…
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…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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…Ty Mulligan, grade 8 student, in a presentation at the 2023 Middle Grades Conference. In many cases, Exploratory Fridays involve community partners to provide more supervision and structure. Many of…
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…virtual help desks collaborating with community partners conducting virtual project-sharing with the larger community I would love to hear from students who’d like to share out their ongoing work or…
Read more…getting student perspective on school change and making sure that voice is center stage, but using technology to communicate with students, family and the community at large. Educator-made video resources…
Read more…networks to learn with mentors, with community partners, remote collaborators and with asynchronous and synchronous group work. The online world is collaborative. In schools, we should take advantage of the…
Read more…to share how he used Google Hangouts, a Google+ Community, back-channeling and plain old email to enable his students to connect with students a couple of states away. As a…
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…inviting parents of community partners to be apart of the activities or have a community showcase of learning to an authentic audience. My favorite culminating activity is a pie or…
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…What’s included in a 5/6 PLP? The 5/6 PLP is not a full-blown PLP in terms of a focus on community and evidence. We decided we would focus on some…
Read more…and digital manipulation. Most recently they just had a Community Celebration, where the artwork was posted around the school and families and the community came in to admire it and…
Read more…to the team, or from whole school to the community, we need to continue to support students in these environment. Here are a few examples to get you thinking: The…
Read more…empathetic learning community. Katy Farber emphasized student involvement in establishing classroom norms and routines, as well as the design of flexible learning spaces, both of which lay important groundwork for…
Read more…Your class, your community and the progress your school has made matters. And they should be celebrated. Let’s look at 8 ways you can reflect on your school experience, celebrate…
Read more…a survey to share about the school and community. Students can come back and analyze the data by creating graphics to share back to the business or community. 8. Teambuilding…
Read more…creative geniuses, ruthless truthtellers, and intrinsic futurists. Here are four examples of students as partners in school change: partners in building a makerspace, redesigning PLPs, serving the school community and…
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…nutrition and ancient civilizations. Now the only question was how best to show off all this hard work to the community. Principal Christy Coloutti explains, “We had a staff discussion…
Read more…as complicated individuals facing important issues in-school and out. And as a group, you and your students have built your advisory into a strong, close-knit community. When any community disbands,…
Read more…social event with physical fitness in a way that enhances community life. Students learn new dances and teach them to each other and to community members. During EMMA’s visit to…
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…Community is key. https://twitter.com/OswaldAlly/status/920664567696543745 The community of learners, but also the community of people, plants, animals, and everything on the landscape. The flexibility of time leads to rich learning. Circling…
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Does your community know you as a learner? Flood Brook School buzzed with excitement. Students brought in their projects on tables or on carts, the weight sometimes shared with friends….
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…where students can learn about how to create powerful TED Talks with students and share them in meaningful community events. There are TED-Ed clubs across the globe. And once you…
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…between PBL and projects is the audience. Is the project for an audience of one, the teacher? Or is it for a community group, parents and school board members, who…
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…harness the power of student voices in the building. An important outcome of inviting parents and community members into the school building, is that they can sense the agency of…
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…At both an in-school and after-school exhibition, students shared their projects and learning to other students in the school, teachers, high schoolers, and parents/community members. Passion projects and a public…
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…These two towns form a rural community that sits on the east slope of the Green Mountains right under the majestic Camel’s Hump, Vermont’s second tallest and most recognizable peak….
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Mettawee Community School, in West Pawlet VT, loves tradition. They’re a small, tight-knit school in a rural area, and home to two very important traditions: the annual Christmas holiday fair,…
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…I love listening to your podcast. I think it adds a lot to the conversation around literacy and being a literate community statewide in Vermont, so thank you. I’ve been…
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…planning template and determined how best to execute each step: Start with an exciting entry event Create a driving question The Research and Creation Phase Finish with an authentic community…
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…having lenses of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation and economic class — even a subset of those lenses — can make a collection more useful to its community. And…
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…bunch of books and work with a committee of readers to figure out the best books that we want to present to kids in our community. Meet Felix Jeanie: You…
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…engaging because they feature student choice, voice, authentic audiences, relevance, purpose, and community partnership opportunities. Choose your pedagogical approach that best fits the needs of your students and your topic….
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…some content thrown in, certainly. The fact that I live in a community and teach in a community where we’re honoring that and saying, “Algebra II scores are not going…
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…your together time as a community for genuine interactions. Here is a fabulous example from Newark School, in West Burke VT: Look at all the information in Newark’s agenda! Links…
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…for building community features ideas on how to engage your community in meaningful dialogue, whether the topic is self-reflection, planning for success, or current events, these ideas will help you…
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…stories that are now a part of your classroom community and just the opportunity for diversity, you know, for new voices and different experiences and authors that come from different…
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…the very first time! Angeline Boulley’s The Firekeeper’s Daughter is a mystery set in an Ojibwe community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. I read it quickly for the plot and then…
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…decided to tackle the task anyway. Through this exploration, students learned more about the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development, visited local murals in their community, and had some fun…
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…book Community: The structure of belonging. He proposes that the fragmentation of our society can be cured one community conversation at a time. I so very much want this to be…
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…of giving students the ability to choose, execute and share projects with personal relevance has spread across Vermont. Shelburne Community School and Charlotte Community School refer to them as “PIPs”…
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…Other Talk Episode #57 The Other Talk with Brendan Kiely, Jess Lifshitz, and Christie Nold The 21st Century Classroom · Community Schools Blueprint Episode #56: Community School Blueprint with Kathleen…
Read more…common ground between community members and students. They expand notions of where learning happens and recognize the expertise within the community. They can also showcase young adolescents as assets and…
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…Vermont. On December 18th, The Edge team opened their doors to the community in one of their regularly scheduled exhibitions of learning. This “Peek Through the Window” allowed community…
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