Introducing: asset mapping
…not the initial focus of your conversation and feedback. So then why do we start service, project, and problem-based learning with a problem? Avoiding the “Deficit Perspective” Many of us…
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On the cutting Edge of student-centered education
…then turned those themes into a yearlong project. Our requirement? Each project had to benefit the community in some way. Wren House is currently a senior at Essex High School,…
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4 ways students are tackling the UN’s Global Goals in Vermont
…look at their community, how do they want to help, and where would that project fit into the Goals? As students undertake project-based learning work on the Global Goals, technology…
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A tale of two tech tools
Students test drive tools to enhance & amplify project work When Stowe Middle Level educators met to plan for the upcoming student exhibitions of learning, they agreed on two critical…
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One mural, multiple legacies
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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“Who are we as West Rutland?”
…are we as West Rutland?” West Rutland’s 7/8 team wanted to create a project that connected students to their community through an exploration of the question “Who are we as…
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Developing integrated units from commercial curriculum
…use the Lucy Calkins writing or reading units as a basis, for example. You can turn them — viola! — into project-based learning units that engage and excite students. Case…
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#vted Reads: Hemingway, with Elijah Hawkes
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…work on The 1619 Project. Which is wonderful. Because The 1619 Project really disrupted all of the history I learned as a student, right? By centering the experiences — and…
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Personalized learning in the spring garden
…They’re considering how they might tie in some STEM standards to this student-led project. They all consider how to flex the schedule to build more time for this collaborative project….
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Increasing Student Self-Direction
…ready hope. That makes sense. Question on Self-Direction & Project-Based Learning “In terms of the popularity of project-based learning as a scaffold for, for authentic and meaningful learning opportunities for…
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Launching toward engagement: integrated units at Miller’s Run
…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…
Read moreNatural Disasters in the Classroom
…they offer a powerful way to frame large scale project-based learning opportunities for students. Studies of these events can incorporate earth science, physics, geology, and chemistry; they also offer powerful…
Read moreLeonardo da Vinci’s Smartphone
…template. Then they used ThingLink to make the icons interactive. The Snagit Chrome Extension was used extensively for screenshots throughout the project. Also, throughout the year we talk about primary…
Read moreA community-based interdisciplinary unit
A 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…
Read morePlanning a PBL unit
Resources to tackle project-based learning Welcome to the PBL Highway, my new series aimed at helping you on the road to project-based learning! Setting up a student-driven, rigorous, community-focused project-based…
Read moreThe #everydaycourage of staying curious in the face of negative feedback
…used project– and place- based education to help my students understand the interconnectedness of the world. One such project, which didn’t turn out quite as I’d hoped, was the Apple…
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Using student TED Talks to showcase learning
…at Burke about their project’s rationale and plans. So much of the learning in PBL is about the process of creation and reflection. Integration with project-based learning Most teachers think…
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How to make a mini-documentary
…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 moreReflecting on your PBL
…What was your favorite thing about the project? What was the hardest part of the project? Is there anything you think could have been better? What do you think I…
Read moreThe power of documentation in meaningful learning
…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…
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Nevermind the physics: it’s all about collaboration
…School. For her, this project was a great fit for the engineering and physics proficiencies she teaches to 8th graders. Rose Scavotto has been working on more project-based learning units…
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Who are the keepers of your town’s history?
…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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What’s your inquiry question?
…in the humanities classroom?” *Marley Evans “Can project-based math yield the results we we want to see on testing? (The project is fun, but does the math get lost?)” *…
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#vted Reads: The End of Average
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…see students who are maybe struggling with a creative project, because it’s called a “creative project” and a student previously hasn’t seen themselves as creative. I remember that feeling when…
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Confronting climate change in the classroom
…Education Project (VEEP) – their Energy Action Project Institute and Youth Climate Leaders Academy are both stellar! Shrinking our Footprints – this is a great project-based learning unit from PBL…
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#vted Reads: The Successful Middle School
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…active, purposeful and democratic. But they don’t always end up that way when they’re enacted, right? Project-based education, for example or project based learning. There’s so many iterations of that,…
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#vted Reads: with Alex Shevrin Venet
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…action research project. What I love about that, because it also goes along with something that’s important to me and that runs throughout your book, is this idea of being…
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vted Reads picture books!
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…into it. So, 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,…
Read more5.1 Engaging Pedagogies for All
…that. Please add your own in the comments and let us know what we’ve missed! Project-based learning In Project-based learning, students identify a question they want to answer and then…
Read moreSugaring, 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…
Read moreSugaring 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 moreDigital citizenship in the real world
…and offline. In my World History 2 class, students work on developing skills to engage as citizens and problem solvers. One project that is particularly focused on digital – and…
Read moreHow schools can conduct a community conversation
…rote-based system is not just bad for hiring, but “also bad for the soul.” Yet, the film did provide an accessible and positive depiction of project based learning. Principals Amy…
Read moreCreating a PBL culture from Day One
Build a community to support project-based learning I bet you have big dreams of creative, innovative projects and engaged students in your classroom. Students who are busy researching, collaborating, creating,…
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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Introducing “Cabot Leads”
…met LaunchPad, it’s project-based learning planning tool created by two Cabot educators. Launchpad is an easy to use, organized, scaffolded and visually appealing way to develop project based learning units….
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Battle Physics at Green Mountain Union High School
…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…
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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: Pride with Meg Allison
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…book over the summer and then be prepared to present a project for it for the library, like a marketing project using the book that they read at the GMBA…
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Equity, identity & art
…And what they created was amazing. Starting with self Christie wanted students to learn about identity in the context of equity and diversity. “The impetus for the project was really…
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How to throw culminating events — online!
…projects, project-based or service learning units celebrations online. In this moment, we can still find connection, audience and purpose. It’s just (like everything else right now) going to take a…
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Re-connect & re-imagine this return to school.
…Lather, rinse, repeat. Another example comes from the Imagining September project from MIT and Harvard. In the “School as Basecamp” storyboard (p. 11-12), students engage with a career exploration project…
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#vted Reads: Community Schools Blueprint with Kathleen Kesson
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…I had a funded research institute at the University of Vermont. It was called the John Dewey Project on Progressive Education. So, kind of a scholar of Dewey’s work, I…
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#vted Reads: The Other Talk
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…I also just 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…
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Introducing our Outdoor and Place-Based Learning Toolkit
…equity . And so many fabulous project based learning experiences take place in part or fully outside. We hope you enjoy digging in here, and, of course, getting out there!…
Read moreChapter References
…Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning Gold Standard Project Based Learning, Buck Institute for Education Transferable Skills: Sample Graduation Proficiencies and Performance Indicators, Vermont Agency of Education Examples and…
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Outdoor and Place-Based Learning Toolkit
…deeply about our relationship with the environment and the legacies of a place are powerful ingredients for equity . And so many fabulous project based learning experiences take place in…
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 more“See America”: Cabot students share their PBL research
Project-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…
Read moreTarrant Institute partners presenting at Dynamic Landscapes
…Renca and their students will be presenting “Creating a 21st Century School-wide Reading Community” Thursday at 1:30pm. They’ll be joined by Geoff Gevalt from the Young Writers Project. Also Thursday…
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 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…
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Teaching students how to set personal exploration goals
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…
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Implementing 1:1 norms and digital citizenship
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…
Read moreLearn Like a Pirate: Key takeaways
…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…
Read moreClimate, Community and Voice from Day 1
…day for passions projects and community-based learning. Others are scaffolding the skills of self-directed learning through student-driven project-based or design learning. Many are working to make students’ personal learning plans…
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 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…
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 moreJ-Term at Hazen Union
…while students did project work in each of their seminars, the faculty required them to commit to a so-called Deep Dive, a self-selected project that honored depth over breadth. This…
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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…
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