What Vermont students really think about personal learning plans Put 47 middle-level students together, challenge them to think differently about ways to create effective, relevant and meaningful Personalized Learning Plans,…
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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…enjoy doing something, you want to talk about it.” Several teams at Tuttle Middle School are taking a project-based approach to Personal Learning Plans to “hook” students into the goal-setting,…
Read more…a volcano erupts, and you have only your geology wits (and a science teacher with fabulous hair) to save you. These are middle schoolers building mobile, place-based games with ARIS,…
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…— is that she doesn’t fit in. That she’s almost like, an outreach project that’s been brought into the school. Nothing about her is celebrated or believed or trusted in…
Read moreVia TeachThought, here are 23 ways you can integrate an iPad (and its apps) into a classroom focused on project-based learning (PBL): Image attribution: flickr user flickeringbrad How are you…
Read more…at: http://learningforsustainability.net/internet/online_games.php What We’re Watching Watch this short clip on how one middle school in Virginia uses tech and project-based learning to help regenerate oysters in their local river: …
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…when you find your team discussing the spring dance in the middle of planning your upcoming project-based learning units. If this is happening at your meetings, consider articulating the purpose…
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…to embrace the possibilities that emerge from the obstacles we face during this time. Emily Hoyler wrote about re-imagining project-based learning at home with her children. And she gives us…
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…student-led conferences, passage presentations with portfolios, and standards-based grading will be relevant and will deep my own learning. The latest book by Maira Kalman, Women Holding Things, is also on…
Read more…in PBL Scaffolds to support PBL learners 8 methods for reflection in project-based learning Assessment in Project-Based Learning Culminating Events for Project-Based Learning Introducing: asset mapping Save Save…
Read more…at Orleans Elementary School, in Orleans VT. kchadburn@ocsu.org & agratton@ocsu.org | Visit their classroom Inquiry question: “How can we increase student voice and extend opportunities for personalization through project-based learning?”…
Read moreHeidi Ringer Heidi Ringer teaches 6th grade English at Warren Elementary School, in Warren VT. hringer@wwsu.org https://tiie.w3.uvm.edu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/heidi_for_twitter_final.mp4 Inquiry question: “How can adding personalization to project-based learning foster strong student engagement?”…
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A tale of research-driven change Last year two educators at Crossett Brook Middle School undertook an amazing action research project that directly improved their interactions with students. Mollie Burke-Bendzunas, speech…
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…students now, when they get to their end project, for whatever project they might be doing, they say, “Oh: can we do a podcast with Mr. Berry?” And that is…
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…Deeper Learning Conference we attended in 2018, and in one session we attended, called Little People have Big Ideas: Implementing a Social Justice Lens in Elementary, with Jeffrey Feitelberg, elementary…
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…how amazing that is and how through a strength-based lens how great that is. Because if you are – just remember how it was and what we always used to…
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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…
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…learning, with a presentation that was articulate and research-based, including data from a student survey. The teachers took notice. And they agreed to look into the students’ proposal. From Passion…
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…take the lead in sharing the learning, goals, and needs is essential. Let’s take a quick look at the why, when, and the how, with a little quality brainstorming. Why?…
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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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…collaborative strategy from Emily Rinkema and Stan Williams, authors of The Standards Based Classrom: Make Learning the Goal . It’s similar to hexagonal thinking in that groups of students move…
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…their classroom and their own learning. Over the summer, with the help of a week at Vermont’s Middle Grades Conference, Dumont put together a plan to help her fourth grade…
Read more…authentic audiences?) You can also tackle digital citizenship using Project Based Learning. This PBL launch page from Greenwich Public Schools in Connecticut shows the potential of allowing students to explore…
Read more…the schedule! Take stock as the year goes on: are you encountering Missing Cord Syndrome too often? Time for an overhaul! 3. Use a Learning Management System (LMS) Learning management…
Read morePlace-based learning with real world implications For your students, learning about the local landscape can be amazing. What’s that tree? How long has that building been here? What does that…
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So, maybe you’ve been using protocols at faculty meetings or professional learning community sessions. Perhaps you’ve found that they make space for all voices in conversations about proficiency-based education. Or…
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…mom and teacher give feedback on next steps? (14:01) How does Morgan’s view of grades match with a proficiency-based learning environment? And how did reflecting on her goals help Morgan…
Read moreSTEM endorsement for students features personalized learning, community partners Last week, Essex High School threw a community launch party to celebrate the start of their STEM Academy‘s second year. But…
Read more…class. But in the STEM fields, this system of lectures being delivered through home video frees up class time not only for supported practice, but also other learning activities. The…
Read more…video-based resources. The idea with Edpuzzle is to interject into video viewing at key, strategic points, prompts that ask the viewer to pause, reflect, and/or respond to questions, all meant…
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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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…it takes a bit of finagling to make it useful for this kind of learning and project. Here are some of librarian Becky Whitney’s tips for using Minecraft for education:…
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…She didn’t realize until much later. https://twitter.com/ThisAmerLife/status/1079801109710098433 And then recently on a learning journey, I took to Hawaii to study, place-based learning, there’s a huge problem with people who don’t…
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…of their learning, strengths and challenges, and possibly their goals and aspirations. They assemble that evidence along with reflections into some format; many use a slideshow or PLP, but there…
Read moreAsking students to share their PLPs is one powerful way to engage families in a deeper understanding of their child’s learning and progress. What does one look like? At Lamoille…
Read more…that will have an immediate effect on classroom or learning workflow. Hour of Code? Coming up next week. Javascript? Here to stay for the foreseeable future and much, much sexier…
Read more…skip the movie star feeling and head straight for the desk. So being able to document their learning without having to worry about, agonize over or be confronted by their…
Read more…largely project-based, allowing them to showcase the work they’ve been doing on the school’s revolutionary Brainado unit. Additionally, the students recommended adopting the PLP peer collaboration system modeled by students…
Read more…Math & Readers / Writers Workshop stephanie.zuccarello@lssuvt.org | Visit their school Inquiry Question: How does a guided structure for project based learning help students make real-world connections across all disciplines?…
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