Molecules in Augmented Reality
…for “app smashing.” An overlay could be a publicly viewable screencast or a student-built website. For this project, we’ve used the free Java applet Jmol to model molecules. Creating molecular…
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Storing digital badges for portfolios
…we’ve done in the Scaling the Action Research site is to have only the final badge, which is a link to all users’ google site (their final project), be sent…
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How to use Google Hangout for screencasting
…your machine as if the Hangout wasn’t there, and start talking. And what you wind up with as a finished project is something like this: After you finish the…
Read moreStudent-made geology games
…earthquakes in Oklahoma, for example) make an ARIS story or adventure that uses QR codes. The project could be a non-linear model of the rock cycle, it could be a…
Read moreMaking even more of “Beyond Bling”
…be interested in further considerations of complex problems, project-based learning, and constructionism as a learning philosophy. Lucie points out that using these types of technologies to create “bling” is a…
Read moreMultiple platforms, multiple voices: scenes from a 1:1 rollout
…Blog. Check out his post to see this year’s new initiatives: 1:1 with iPads, a new House structure, and the focus on Project Based Learning, from a student perspective. But…
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PLPs and literacy
Incorporating student choice into reading This screencast, from Crossett Brook Middle School, in Waterbury, Vermont, describes an action research project based on the premise that students would benefit if day-to-day…
Read moreWhat are some good tools for studying hurricanes?
…from the student learning. The segment was a way for students to be personally responsible for certain components, while working collaboratively for a final project. The final produced segment demonstrated…
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How does professional development affect technology integration?
…action research project, examining what role professional development plays in increasing the amount of time technology is integrated into the classroom in a 1:1 environment. Mary Colvin, Jen Little and…
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Self-directed learning and playlists
…project outcomes. One way to do this would be to co-create a Vegan Playlist using PowerMyLearning‘s playlist builder. Once I create a free account, we could search for resources available…
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Using digital tools to change student goal-setting and reflection
Measuring how students approach goal-setting in the 5th and 6th grades Educators at Wallingford Elementary School and Shrewsbury Mountain School, in central Vermont, undertook an action research project measuring…
Read moreFacilitating community conversations about education
…group’s convictions were mirrored by data from a community-wide survey, where the same themes emerged: our schools needed to focus on hands-on, project-based experiences, directed by students and connected to…
Read moreMiddle Grades Institute Reflections
…by leaps and bounds in this department (See Young Writers Project, Middlebury Interactive Languages, and Governor’s Institute as a few examples). Like students, many adult learners need MODELS for what…
Read more4 ways to partner with students around Genius Hour
…Hour with a student-led campaign that included branding, mysterious signage, and a video. Just having students introduce the project shifts the perspective. 2. Minimal requirements Embarking on open-ended projects can…
Read moreIdle-Free Vermont in Shelburne
…they did a good job. They explained the project that they’re doing, and gave me some good information on the difference it can make to not leave your car idling…
Read moreHow can students reflect on their PLPs?
…preserve PLP Google Sites. 2. The Slideshow: Linden O’s Bee Garden Another video reflection, in more of a slideshow format, incorporating photos taken during a project-based learning (PBL) unit on…
Read more3 ways to use Google Forms to streamline your workflow
…question. We encourage all participants at the Middle Grades Institute to complete an action research project. Data collection is paramount in this process and, again, we have found Google Forms…
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4 ways to make math more relevant
…the project-based learning approach When students do hands-on projects in math, they create a mental scaffold of concepts. And they may not even know they’re doing it, what with being…
Read moreAdventures in #realworldPBL: The Field Trip
…it certainly didn’t make for deep and relevant learning for the students. The work of developing project-based, engaging, and personalized learning is much more complex. It’s also full of uncertainty….
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Scheduling and student choice
…PLPs. Members of the Rutland Town School middle school team — including Brian Crane, Erica Zimmer and Melissa Theis — presented their scheduling and school choice project, “iLearn” at the…
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Flexible pathways in proficiency-based learning
…the world at the same time.” Sam Nelson: Thanks Emma. Each step in the flower project is one step on the learning target. You can’t get a more tangible and…
Read moreDynamic Landscapes 2017: the power of authentic #vted student voice
…program, fighting hate in the community and fostering a welcoming atmosphere: https://twitter.com/susanblethen/status/866663668196495360 Compass School senior Nineh, who presented her senior project to the Compass community Tuesday night, then booked it…
Read more4 ways Vermont educators are sharing their practice
…back on feedback? Yes, and here’s why. At a “Project Based Learning 101” workshop with Buck Institute , teachers from a number of different schools shared their project plans using…
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5 summer mindsets to bring into this year
…friend, or read a book for pleasure. When you do this, everyone benefits: our students, families, and colleagues. 4. Reflection. From learning about project-based and service learning, we know reflection…
Read moreMaker-centered learning and transferable skills:
…too short. Some wires became entangled or undone as they moved around the project. They lost track of which wire went where and needed to come up with labeling systems….
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The new Crossett Brook personalized learning plans
…roll out PLPs this year, the student group responded, “We got this. Oh, and let’s start with the name.” New name for a new experience: Project. Action. Thought. Highlights. The…
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The student architects of Shelburne VT
…design proposals. And finally, the takeaways: This project-based learning unit gave students a real-world issue to tackle. And that’s an important element to bring to project-based learning. As one student…
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Start faculty meetings with a student presentation
…Project to faculty presentation On another occasion, Colchester sixth grader Moorea presented her Passion Project to the whole faculty. With fiftyish adults in the room she jumped right in, as…
Read moreStudents blogging for an authentic audience
…to practice tech skills, writing, and best of all, communicate with a more authentic audience. Here are the steps I took to get this project underway: Contact adults who like…
Read morePhys ed 2.0: More learning, less suffering
…“This is the time when all of the work takes place for teachers,” observed Dan Gratton from Crossett Brook. “We work with students to make sure the project is right…
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How to build up STEAM
…those tables and just freeform brainstorm ideas for ways engineering or creating could help the characters in the story solve their problems. Prototype: To the making! Students chose a project…
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Building a chicken coop at The Dorset School
…of the students involved in this project, about what they learned. Previously: Evolving student roles in a big (BIG) PBL project How to build a better (student-made) chicken coop Any…
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17 ways to communicate with students’ families
…to invite parents in and make channels of communication available. Community dinner. Make it a class or team project to plan a dinner for all families. Even if you just…
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Voice + choice = a better math classroom
…it’s not up to me really anymore, and that was the purpose really of this project. It’s to set up a system where it wasn’t about me driving them. It…
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#vted Reads: Protocols in the Classroom, with Terra Lynch
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…coming from someone else, “Hey, you forgot to include the poster in this project.” Like, “Oh, class is next period, what am I going to do? How am I going…
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#vted Reads: Troublemakers with Mike Martin
In this episode of #vted Reads, we talk with South Burlington curriculum coordinator Mike Martin,about Troublemakers, a book by Carla Shalaby. We touch on what we're really doing when we ask our students to code-switch, Black Lives Matter, and the trouble with classroom norms, and we pose the question: 'How do school systems bestow unearned privilege on some, and un-earned hardship, on others?' Oh, and we talk about Harry Potter. Naturally.
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…I was recently in a school working on a battle physics project. And the teacher stepped out to saw some wood. And I was in this classroom with these kids…
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Tools for broadening reflection
…me! Also, the research is super sound about the benefit of reflection in both project-based and service learning. Without solid reflection, learning is limited and diminished. (cite). Reflection can come…
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Connecting Vermont students with dairy farms
…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…
Read moreBright spots and belly flops
…this project. Each meeting includes a lot of “Good idea.” and “Oh cool.” followed by a retreat to their rooms to continue business as usual. I understand that this is…
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Vermont schools have a transportation equity problem.
…went home and immediately started researching for next year’s project — that is not the norm in a typical social studies classroom. -Morgan Moore, Humanities Teacher, Burke Town School And…
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Ottauquechee’s Diversity Detectives in:
…kid’s classroom library, I just thought “I could do that with a very small segment of the library,” and then use it as a research project. The diversity audit, it…
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Welcome to Learning Lab VT
…teachers personalize learning for students? Charlie Herzog, Flood Brook School. Studying how students talk about their experiences with project-based learning. Jon Brown, Lamoille Union Middle School. “Can project-based math yield…
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The role of students in the Learning Lab
…6th grade teacher at Warren Elementary School, Warren VT convenes her Learning Lab Site-Based Team every Tuesday at lunch. The group provides on-going feedback about their project based learning in…
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Getting personal about systemic equity
…Django & Paris, the National Equity Project, and our own research. Educators throughout the district engaged in community circles focused on identifying inequities within the district and exploring their own…
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How to do a library diversity audit
…time. 3. Give students choice – then share with each other Becky noticed that students were not uncomfortable with this project, and she thinks it has to do with the…
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#vted Reads: Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades, with Penny Bishop
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…what my pace is, how I manage that pace, how I set goals, how I project manage. All of those things are more important in a self-directed, kind of personalized…
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What Orleans students want you to know about student voice
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…Kyle Chadburn. These teachers have worked hard to move toward personalized learning practices such as project based learning and increasing student voice and choice. Personalized learning does not mean individualized…
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What I Learned at the Youth Climate Strike
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…just fossil fuels for electricity. So, the ideal is to get into students’ personal interests and tap into that. And then with that, find out, okay, what project do you…
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How to change assessment & grading practices
…Link to Deidre’s Documents: Student Ration and Proportion Unit Evidence Probability Project: Design Your Own Game Expressions & Equations Unit Test (adapted) 7th Grade test rubric for Expressions & Equations…
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#vted Reads: Hidden Roots with Judy Dow
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…is a friend of yours? Judy: Yes. I’m working right now on a project to get him to come to the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union to do presentations for the…
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What CVU students want you to know about education
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…usually project-based. When I talk about things that have really stuck with me, a lot of them I have from one class that I had in middle school for social…
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Video evidence & reflection for student-led conferences
…the student-led conference A teacher-generated video example launches the project. Students consider how to meet the requirements of sharing learning aligned to clear targets from their interdisciplinary project-based work: Include…
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Talking with Mount Holly students
…an example of when you got to learn more about the ocean? Alyssa: We’re doing a project currently — not everyone’s doing it about the ocean but I’m doing the…
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Virtual video walkie-talkies? Meet the Marco Polo app
…tool removes the physical distance and connects learners with mentors and experts in the field. Or, if they’re working on a Joy Project a quick connection could bring the project…
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Scaffolding students with Padlet and Flipgrid
…you think…, Where in the novel did you find that…?” Taking it to the next level with Padlet: Literature Circles & Project Planning Finally, now that her students have experienced…
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A Quarantine Homeschooling Dispatch
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…didn’t. I finished it in less, and I’m proud of that and that was like a project for me. I’ve also done a slide show… Life: What was the slideshow…
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Trauma-informed distance learning, with Alex Shevrin Venet
…it’s anti-racist teaching, whether it’s project-based learning, you know, the things that we know are so engaging and authentic for students. Do you have thoughts on how people can strike…
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What can we learn from summer unschooling?
…business, running cash registers, preparing food, balancing books, raising livestock or changing the world. Other students see a need in the world and craft a project to address it. After…
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4 tales of outdoor education in Vermont
…seventh and eighth-grade teacher in language arts, social studies, and what we call integrated studies, which is a combination of science and social studies taught through the project baselines. My…
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“Because internet”: learning to communicate in different online spaces
…radio station being built one town over. I’m doing my Passion Project on it!” One Wish: If you could change anything about the situation you describe, [panda conservation, alien invasion,…
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Lessons learned from a community conversation on race
…then we were off to the races. 2. Learn from others As we began planning, we researched how other processes have played out. We looked at the powerful project-based learning…
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North Country Flexible Pathways
…to support a student’s individualized project plan. “We use to bring in an educator early into the planning process of a individual student project. I now work with the student…
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Scaffolding success for self-directed learners
…a lot of things. I saw teachers providing templates and project plans. I noticed that students had a journal where they were reflecting on both their plan and how it…
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The Culturally Responsive Learning Environment
…may gather evidence of learning and share appreciative reflections on growth with families through celebration-centered student-led conferences. Classrooms do important, meaningful, and impactful things together like service-learning and critical project-based…
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