Sugaring, STEM, and community connections
…house project. They worked to get permission from the school, and identified a number of different partners to make the project happen. Both national companies with a local presence and…
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Sugaring and the community part 2: Students become teachers
…maple syrup for their school every year. Math teacher Phil Young has intertwined the project with his mathematics curriculum, and students use iPads to support their work. By sugaring, students…
Read moreBrainstorming and Research in PBL
…about the driving question and about the entry event? What do they want to see happen? The Brainstorming Phase Sometimes teachers outline the project details, such as “We are going…
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The value of a community mentor
…an engine part for their project. His Brainado project was undefined. He didn’t seem to have much of a plan other than tinkering. Fast-forward four months and Connor is getting…
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Fractions, Llamas, Self-Directed Learning
…help them understand how to solve the problem themselves and whatever technology they needed. Completing this project was not a straight line for most students. First, they had to understand…
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#vted Reads: The Other Talk
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…have to share, since we’re also talking about books that I’m currently reading is The 1619 Project and I’m just taking it in chunks at a time and I’m not…
Read moreTarrant Institute partners presenting at Dynamic Landscapes
…a game of geometry and aliens created by GEMS technologist Angelique Fairbrother. Friday morning, 6th grade math educator Laura Botte and her students will be presenting Project–Based Learning with ARIS:…
Read moreT is for Timelines
Timeline tools for transformative learning Timeline tools can serve two important purposes: concrete help with project planning (for PLPs, 1:1 rollouts, PBL) and for displaying evidence of learning in an…
Read moreExploring digital citizenship as a form of literacy
…the digital footprints of these various superheroes who’d applied for the position. I was surprised at how engaged and involved these students all got in the project. And how the…
Read moreWhy do action research?
…day. By honoring action research as systematic professional inquiry, we empower teachers to improve their practice. It’s easy to get started undertaking a small, powerful action research project in your…
Read more4 examples of students as partners in school change
…final project; And creating a rubric and assessment process. The student Curriculum Team advocated for lots of latitude on the format of the final project, and students definitely produced. Check…
Read moreWhen students share their work, it deepens the learning
…me, I chose the Deep Dive titled “Project Based Learning + Systems Thinking = Deeper Learning”. I was fortunate to be attending the workshop along with teachers from Flood Brook…
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Developing empathy for your community
…January, Burke’s 8th grade students dove into a semester-long project–based learning experience, rooted in the U.N Global Goals and focused on their local community. But first, they had to KNOW…
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The athlete, the artist & the PLP
…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,…
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4 ways to re-take taking attendance
…use to describe where you are with your project right now? Where would you like to see your project go today? What are you most focused on today? What do…
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Service learning (during a pandemic)
…students discover their interests and use them to create a meaningful project. My students are just developing their inquiry questions and about to get feedback on them. This project can…
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How to: showcase community interviews with digital tools
Meet the digital anthropologists of Cabot, Vermont In fulfillment of their project–based learning research this past spring, this pair of middle school students decided to learn more about different regions…
Read moreHow students tell their PLP stories
…and the principal. The team met weekly to plan, problem solve, and organize support for students. This weekly time was invaluable to the success of this project. Students were given…
Read moreOnward and upward
…implementing student-driven project–based learning or service learning programs. Life LeGeros made compelling cases for involving students in the design of makerspaces and the implementation of your own genius hour. The…
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How to create empathy with your community
…it seems, is contagious. What is compassion anyway? This celebration was the culminating event of a six week long project–based learning unit on compassion. Nicholson’s class began at the beginning:…
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Voices Heard: learning from our students
…they had a say? Inspired by the Imagining September Project –the MIT Teaching Systems Lab & Harvard’s Graduate School of Education that gathers student input to imagine what school might…
Read moreStudent-made geology games
…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,…
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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#vted Reads: Hidden Roots with Judy Dow
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…eugenics. So as a quick content note: we’re going to be discussing family- and race-based trauma. Because we have to, so that you can talk about it with your students,…
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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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How a PTO connected students with community during COVID
…challenging, as only one of those days they had zoom class with their classmates, while two whole days were alone at home with email based assignments. When my 7th grader…
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#vted Reads: On The Come Up
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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…
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#vted Reads with Kate Messner
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…look at and say that looks like grooming a child for sexual abuse. And in fact the things that happened with that coach that make Mia so uncomfortable are based…
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#vted Reads: Flight of the Puffin
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…together. The book is based on Ann’s own experiences in responding to the 2016 election (and all that came afterwards) by putting massive amounts of love out into the universe,…
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#vted Reads: The Last Cuentista
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…Matta, and I’m coming to you from the Vermont Education Coalition, also co-director of Safeart, which is a nonprofit based out of Chelsea. We address trauma and communities to creative…
Read moreWhat goes into measuring the success of edtech?
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…and so, these rankings are based on ten different criteria: student eligibility; student access; personalized learning; advancement; quality content; quality instruction; quality choices; assessment and accountability; funding; and delivery. And…
Read moreX is for eXtra credit
…is a rigorous and manageable shift to standards-based assessments. But how does extra credit work in assessing performance? Edmunds Middle School educator Sarah Wright has moved to standards-based assessment with…
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Having the hard conversations in Southern Vermont
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…awkward, but that was a good thing. They were conversations that need to be had. Brainchild of the Londonderry, Vermont-based non-profit The Collaborative, Refuse to Use is based off of…
Read moreThe tech-rich social studies classroom
…learning design is creating learning environments where students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs. In The Learning Edge: Supporting Student Success in a Competency-Based Learning Environment…
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#vted Reads: Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty
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…my language from a deficit-based vocabulary to a strengths-based vocabulary. That is constant work. I think I used to use words like, I think I used to refer to students…
Read more2.2 Avoid the Pitfalls!
…know what they are interested in, or what kind of goals they want to set. Start with engaging learning like identity projects or project–based learning. Then invite students to reflect…
Read moreCh 6: Scaffolding for Equitable, Deeper Learning
The great big myth that persists with any hands-on, project or inquiry-based approach? That teachers simply “turn students loose” on a project, and sit back and drink tea. The truth…
Read moreLooking at proficiency-based assessment for students with disabilities
Making sure Proficiency work includes all students Recently, I was in a middle school team meeting walking folks through some proficiencyb-based learning scenarios and one teacher said “I have a…
Read moreBrian Wagner on Aurasma, continued
…for instance). The machines that are created range from functionally simplistic to extremely clever but all offer students a chance to personalize the experience. The one part of the project…
Read moreMaking a difference with watershed science data
…Emily and Annabelle Erosion in Lake Champlain Chitsa & Dadir Keep it clean Cassandra and Nya Water Outreach Poster Lennon & Kolby Watershed Project Famo-Watershed Project Fern’s Brochure Front and…
Read moreHow to win the VT Tech Bridge Building competition
…to have flexibility in the schedule,” he says. “It’s a time consuming project there’s no doubt. This is a big project. Without the ability to spend this much time for…
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The #everydaycourage of trying again
…wasn’t what they had hoped for, and it quickly fell apart during the project exhibition, but they had seen the project to completion. Still, a feeling that they could have…
Read moreMaking as evidence of self-direction
…Maker Faire The Interactive Audible Garden Project (controlled with a Makey Makey and Scratch) included a homemade railing that invited you to interact with talking chrysanthemums and pumpkins, and a…
Read moreHow to run a unit across multiple schools
…Peoples Academy made the commitment in the summer of 2017 at a Schoology Next conference to co-build the Immigration Migration Project. They knew once back at their respective schools and…
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Sharing your school’s Passion Projects
…experiences, set goals, and reflect on their learning all through the experience of a personal interest project — a project where students explored what they are passionate about. These core…
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Sam Nelson’s Bright Spots & Belly Flops
…enriched the viewing experience. It’s also a really funny and largely poignant movie. Well worth a watch. Finally, I’m really excited about the project that students are currently engaged in….
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Introducing our updated Identity Toolkit
…a culminating project working with teaching artists. Includes scope and sequence, teaching resources, and videos of students. Scaffolding deeper identity work with students A school-wide project (grades 6-8) with students…
Read morePodcasting with Principal Berry
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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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How mobile devices can enhance field trips
…Everything or other app of choice. Michael presented his project at VTFest describing the project this way: Get your students moving, outside and away from wifi — with iPads! We’ll…
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How to get started with action research
…examples from participants at the 2016 Middle Grades Institute, with the action and outcome bolded: How can project–based learning be structured to promote student engagement? How do increased efforts to…
Read more4 times to connect students with an authentic audience
How soon is now? Looking for opportunities to make real-world connections or bring an authentic audience to your students? Typically, a public presentation at the end of a project or…
Read moreHistory of a Scientific Discovery – Timeline Construction
…timeline, but for the sake of this project outline, I’ll stick with free student accounts. Session 1: Students in small groups research one scientist involved in the development of atomic…
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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Self-directed learning and playlists
…are finding ways to adjust weekly schedules to honor time for student-driven projects, but lack the supports and training to help scaffold independent, interest-based learning. One way to do so…
Read moreMiddle Grades Institute Reflections
…with each other. How many times do teachers have PD and no time to review and plan based on new understandings and ideas? Mostly, teachers are supposed to take PD…
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…
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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…
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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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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…
Read morePhys ed 2.0: More learning, less suffering
…the data as evidence to track progress. At the end of the unit, each student created an interval based work out routine that incorporated the four components of fitness from…
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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 work as a Senior Associate for the Rowland Foundation which is a Vermont based non-profit. I’m also the Director of Learning for South Burlington School District. Jeanie: Excellent. Well…
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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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