Randolph students turn digital audio producers with PBL

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…focus on projectbased learning. Projectbased learning is a type of personalized learning that fuses student passions with concrete actions in the world. Students begin each projectbased learning cycle by focusing…

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Negotiated curriculum and project-based learning

…The Edge Academy at Essex Middle School, in Essex Junction VT, has been doing projectbased learning alongside negotiated curriculum for the past six years. Facilitators Lindsey Halman and Phil Young…

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Project-Based Learning

…to support PBL Project based learning in the primary grades Examples of Exciting PBL These stories describe some real-world examples of ProjectBased Learning. Projectbased learning: Extreme weather PBL unit How…

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The great Brian Eno-powered STEAM PBL caper

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSS Wondering how to blend projectbased learning with STEAM? Yes, STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math….

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Project-based learning at Essex Middle School: algebra and songwriting

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…with Yasmine? Violet: Our project is a song based project. We’re writing a whole album of songs. We’re doing three covers, which, two of them are mash ups, one of…

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Chapter References

…Reform, Great Schools Partnership What is Proficiency-Based Grading? New England Secondary Schools Consortium, What is the Difference between Standards-Based Grading (or Reporting) and Competency-Based Education? Matt Townsley, CompetencyWorks, 2014 Harvard…

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Community Based Learning in Vermont: What’s going on?

…is community-based learning? Community Based Learning (CBL) refers broadly to student learning experiences outside the traditional school building or school day. These learning experiences are overseen by outside learning facilitators,…

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#vted Reads: Dive Into Inquiry

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…think, okay, kids need to do a research project or an inquiry project. And we try and do too much at once. Whereas, you know, we have the step of…

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Project-based learning (PBL)

…PBL unit Entry events for projectbased learning Brainstorming and Research in PBL Scaffolds to support PBL learners 8 methods for reflection in projectbased learning Assessment in ProjectBased Learning Culminating Events…

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Meaningful Instruction

…a central guiding question for the project: What is the best buy for the money? Already this project is well on its way to meeting several indicators meaningful instruction: it’s…

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#vted Reads about Equity & Cultural Responsiveness in the Middle Grades

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…equity-focused frameworks and pedagogies intersect with (and actually improve) traditional middle grades frameworks. And some of those equity-based frameworks include cultural responsiveness, culturally sustaining pedagogies, reality pedagogy, equity literacy, funds…

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#vted Reads: Place-Based Curriculum Design

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…acted upon …and changed. First-year educator Thierry Uwilingiyamana — now in his second year at Winooski Middle-High School — joins me on the show to talk about Place-Based Curriculum Design:…

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