Goal-setting as a process This presentation, delivered by Harwood Union High School teacher Lissa Fox at the 2016 Middle Grades Conference, describes an Action Research project that looked at the…
Read more…themselves. Project Based Learning (PBL) There are lots of great resources about project–based learning and Solarz does a nice review of the process. What is particularly helpful to a teacher…
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Rural life and project–based learning You might find students on the skating rink in front of the school, helping out on a goat farm, dirt bike racing, heading to dance…
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…based learning? Game Design Prototypes at Proctor Elementary School Do you have an idea for designing a project based learning experience, but wondering where you will get the tools or…
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…partnering with Vermont app development firm Agilion to create a web-based app where educators could plan their project–based learning endeavors within a framework of dynamic pedagogy. The app, LaunchPad, is…
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…scientists to connect science to their communities and lives. Field trips, project based learning, and other hands on work is perfect for documenting in student made videos. Tell the story…
Read more…art. Her process is based on the principles and practices of Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB), a choice-based art education approach. The idea behind TAB is simple: students are artists…
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…is a project based learning focused middle school in its second year. Currently, it hosts fifth and sixth grade students, and will bring on a new grade each year, up…
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…pedagogies, including project–based learning, place-based learning, negotiated curriculum, and service-learning. It sounds like a lot. But actually, these approaches blend together quite easily with impressive results. When you engage students…
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…larger community. You can find the permanent link to the toolkit here. Also, there is a lot of overlap between community-engaged learning and place-based learning, outdoor learning , project–based learning…
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…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…
Read more…and with greater shared purpose. Project exhibition for peers and parents culminating a project–based learning unit on endangered species. Pillar Three: Flexible pathways Flexible pathways are certainly present in the…
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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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…the way that he approaches his teaching as a constant action research project. That everything that he does, he acknowledges he doesn’t know whether it’s going to work. It might…
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…have been engaging their students in another form of PBL: project–based learning with a critical lens. For example, Edmund’s Middle School teacher Jeremy DeMink engages learners in addressing social inequities…
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…are happening in proficiency-based learning contexts. Both Chadburn & Gratton (2021) and Taylor & Hunt (2021) reference “project based assessment.” Lahuna (2021) had students “co-create learning trajectories” (p. 4) that…
Read more…common understanding and support are collaboratively being built. Pillar 3: Proficiency-Based Learning Finally, let’s look at the qualities necessary for rigorous, student-centered Proficiency-Based Learning/Assessment as outlined in the video…
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…larger community. There is a lot of overlap between community-engaged learning and place-based learning, outdoor learning , project–based learning , service learning , negotiated curriculum , and even education for…
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…21st Century Classroom · Episode 37: All about service learning with Katy Farber Episode #4 – Complete transcript of Real and Relevant: A Guide for Service and Project Based Learning…
Read moreA tech-rich case study from rural Vermont The team from Hazen Union Middle School, in Hardwick, Vermont, conducted an action research project over the fall semester of 2015, centered around…
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…process group were more likely to finish the project on time and considered the task easier. A visualization exercise for the learning process Specifically, learning scales. Anthony and her colleagues…
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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Beyond the Passion Project: Clara wanted to do something amazing for her final Brainado project. She wanted to push herself and leave a “remembrance,” as she called it, commemorating the…
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…project was the final in a series of integrated learning opportunities throughout the year that engaged students in research, designing, and engineering. Teachers threaded a focus on claims and evidence…
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…more information about the project. The dialogue expanded, until Manchester’s whole community rallied round the project, and involved themselves in supporting it. Longtime residents and newcomers alike began to see…
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…I could be, say we did a project and I put it in creativity and say I put this project in creativity because blah, blah, blah blah, or because we…
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…biology — by working with community partners during the school day. Come hear how Essex High School is jump-starting personalized STEM learning with students working toward digital portfolios, project–based learning…
Read more…between community service, project based learning, and service learning here. What is iLead? iLead is a model for service learning where students develop leadership skills, self-efficacy, independence, community, and…
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…Rooms. 1. Invite students into spaces based on their readiness level and work preference How do you invite students to choose which group to join? As you think about yourself…
Read more…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…
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…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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…to join her along the journey. Deirdre participated in Learning Lab VT last year to explore how best to change her practice in a proficiency-based and personalized learning environment. How…
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…and independence. They are provided with choices and selections that are based on what they know about themselves. That are based on what they know about themselves as learners, and…
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…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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…camp. As Morgan explains it, I think experiential learning opens so many doors. I think project based learning, and personalized learning really fall under experiential learning. Say you are a…
Read more…for educators, even if they’re excited by the idea. Where to start? Start with scales for assessment. What is proficiency-based learning? My favorite definition of proficiency-based learning, currently, comes from…
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…math, literacy, or behavior. Schools often call them multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS). This is based on the premise that students receive different intensities of support based on their needs….
Read more…for educators and students both. (Photo credit: Pixabay user “Pexels”). How it fits into the proficiency-based education ecosystem: Formative Assessments are the diagnostic tools in a Proficiency-Based Education system….
Read more…the final product that has specific content elements about the project. Here’s a wonderful scale with current and positive “I can” language for a Social Studies sense of place project…
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…us on this. In the 2nd of our three-part series looking at project–based learning with The Edge team at Essex Middle School, we talk to a novelist, a playwright (slash-director-slash-costume-designer-slash-actor)…
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…B-roll into your project. Command-I is your friend, people. Once you have it in your project, add a piece to your timeline by selecting the clip and placing it above…
Read more…complete the project? What are you most excited about for this project? what are the biggest challenges you still face for completing the project? Our challenge Students and teachers were…
Read more…my definition of active citizenship. It was based on an earlier definition of citizenship, before I had fully integrated the lessons from Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat into my…
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…can hit the most targets. The team to beat: the teachers! The two teachers behind this project also build their own projectile launcher, modestly named “Dream Crusher”. https://twitter.com/JPhillipsVT/status/989912527374110720 The project…
Read moreProject–based learning is alive and well in rural Vermont As part of The Cabot School‘s Exhibition of Learning earlier this spring, middle school students had a chance to share out…
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How do student behaviors change? Debi Serafino, a math teacher at Brattleboro Area Middle School, presents the results of her semester-long action research project examining the effects of implementing 1:1…
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…valued and heard by the district’s leaders. And the district leaders loved hearing from their students. At Burke Town School, students tackle project–based learning through the lens of taking the…
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…the Kingdom each day. This project–based learning packs a punch By using project–based learning as a framework for Burke Town School’s Global Goals, educator Morgan Moore provided students with elements…
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…grades PreK-6 and a host of compassionate and driven educators, Proctor Elementary has been busy! The school just finished a full year of implementing tech-rich, student-centered project–based learning and doing….
Read more…knowledge, and perspective. But… how exactly do we do that? First, let’s look at areas that might need a little tweaking in project–based learning. What direction do you want to…
Read more…have conversations about the book at home. This book could also be a springboard for a deep dive into project–based learning. Yes, project–based learning. Students are presented with multiple issues…
Read more…region of the world). 3. To organize activities in project–based learning Sometimes the more open structure of project based learning can be challenging to students AND teachers. A Padlet…
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…to express their learning. She designed the unit based on standards, starting with an appendix to the C3 standards which include the expectations that students can “Explain the…
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…building the culture for project–based learning, or just building relationships in the classroom and team, one thing is certain: time spent now on building culture will pay off in the…
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…students getting out into the community in support of their project–based and service learning experiences hinges on teachers driving students to these locations. This is, of course, incredibly generous of…
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…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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…for learning. Whether it’s via micro-credentials or enhanced transcripts, proficiency-based assessments make it possible for us to design ways of both providing guidance on and pushing students toward skills-based self-directed…
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…Jeanie talks with noted Vermont educator and consultant Bill Rich (twitter: @rhlearning). Bill is a longtime-classroom teacher who now works with schools, providing guidance on brain-based learning. He’s also the…
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…to become more equitable and student centered, the choice is clear. Grades gotta go. Why are grades sticking around? Based on interviews with several districts for this blog post, it…
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Read more…the project at the front of a project–based learning experience increase personalization for students? Lab Report Culminating Video Reflection Post: This Is Really Scary (And I’ve Never Been More…
Read more…apps (2) Place-Based Learning (3) Project–Based Learning (30) Getting On The PBL Highway (6) Real World PBL (6) Teaming (2) co-teaching (1) Trauma-Informed Education(2) Ideas for Parents (6) Identity (2)…
Read more…Quality research happens in the field of education — research that is peer-reviewed and upon which we can make decisions. What’s computer-based science inquiry? The most recent edition of Review…
Read more…growth, using a blended learning environment. For those of you unfamiliar with Proficiency-Based Learning, or interested in a primer, I highly recommend What’s the Deal with Proficiency-Based Learning? The video…
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