Susan Hennessey brings with her years of experience exploring the intersection between educational technology and student-centered pedagogies.
She has been a Professional Development Coordinator for the Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education for the last 10 years.
In addition she teaches courses in the University of Vermont’s Educational Technology sequence and serves as the Digital Learning Lever Group Leader for Vermont Learning for the Future.
Before becoming part of the Tarrant team, Susan was a Library Media Specialist and former English teacher and English Department Chair at Harwood Union Middle High School. There she frequently collaborated with fellow teachers facilitating professional development opportunities including workshops and summer graduate courses focused on innovative technologies. In 2007, she received the Milken Educator Award.
Blogposts:
- Voices Heard: learning from our students
- SEL and mindfulness with the Learning Lab
- Hyperdocs 101
- Building a blended & hybrid teaching toolkit
- 6 ways to help students create the best Breakout Rooms
- The power of thematic and integrated learning at Randolph Middle School
- How to use Google Keep for video note-taking
- How to change assessment & grading practices
- Top 10 ways to spend a snow day
- Meet Learning Lab VT 2019!
- The powerful practice of documenting learning
- How to craft questions for deeper learning
- What’s your inquiry question?
- The role of students in the Learning Lab
- Welcome to Learning Lab VT
- What can we learn about proficiency from special education?
- Stowe students lead school change
- Paths to proficiency
- The shifting role of the teacher in a blended learning classroom
- The power of documentation in meaningful learning
- Students design digital badges
- A tale of two tech tools
- Telling a complex story through imagery
- How to run a unit across multiple schools
- Using PearDeck in a proficiency-based environment
- 3 easy tech tools for PLP reflections
- Choose Your Own Adventure with Google Earth
- Maintaining a teaching team
- 4 ways Vermont educators are sharing their practice
- J-Term at Hazen Union
- Three Pillars in Practice: Team Extreme IDU
- How to win the VT Tech Bridge Building competition
- Build personal connections in teacher advisory
- 4 ways students can control the pace of content delivery
- The tech-rich social studies classroom
- Peer collaboration on PLPs
- Assessment in Proficiency-Based Classrooms
- 3 visualization exercises for proficiency-based learning
- Proficiency-based teaching and learning in Vermont: who, why and how
- (Re) Designing PLPs with students
- Assessing tech-rich instruction
- How mobile devices can enhance field trips
- Going on Google Expeditions
- Cross-school goal-setting for PLPs
- A community-based interdisciplinary unit
- How ubiquitous learning spaces can spur reflection
- Managing time in blended classrooms
- Self-directed learning and playlists
- Finding joy in the classroom
- Using Google tools to connect with other schools
- Exploring identity and current events with Chatterpix
- Act 77, Flexible Pathways and best middle level practices
- Personalize learning with Open Educational Resources
- Blended learning in the math classroom
- Augmented reality and student identity
- Learning as a social activity
- W is for Weekly Geek Podcast
- P is for Performance Tasks
- Serious PD fun with Chatterpix
- N is for Nearpod
- K is for Kahoot
- Multiple platforms, multiple voices: scenes from a 1:1 rollout
- B is for Booktracks
- Collaborative digital tools for faculty meetings
- Blended learning and teacher empowerment
- Student motivation in claims, evidence and audience
- Digital Display: add Credly badges to Google Sites
- Storing digital badges for portfolios
- Encouraging Conversations with EdPuzzle
- Active video viewing
- Reflecting in the math classroom
- Multiple learning pathways with MOOCs
- Common sense advice for tween social media use
- iBook Authors at Harwood Union Middle School
- Too much good stuff: a wealth of reading and curation resources for the classroom
- How to add footnotes to Google Docs on your iPad
- Differentiated social reading with Subtext
- How to use EdPuzzle for differentiation
- Interact with reading on the Chromebook
- Create community in your classroom with ShadowPuppet
- Testing unbound
- Customizing Google search results
- Simplifying the search for information
