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being a student
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4 things I learned by being a student again

March 9, 2020March 11, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments empathy

Being a student again is harder than I expected, and it’s also been quite revealing Recently, I decided to go

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welcome to a better Brandon
#vted Reads 

#vted Reads: Pride with Meg Allison

May 1, 2019February 11, 2021 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments Easter eggs, empathy, gentrification, Ibi Zoboi, Pride and Prejudice, race, spoken word poetry
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What does Jane Austen have to do with a Drake mixtape? For this episode, I was joined by Vermont rockstar

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Dorset students at Dismas House
Community-based learning 

(re)Building community

February 13, 2019February 13, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 3 Comments cooking, Dismas House, empathy, restorative justice, social justice, The Dorset School

Breaking bread & stereotypes with formerly incarcerated Vermonters Food and community are inextricably linked. Birthdays, funerals, weddings, holidays: a meal

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compassion and empathy
Community-based learning Stories from VT Students 

How to create empathy with your community

June 13, 2018September 19, 2018 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments empathy, Manchester Elementary-Middle School

Meet the Compassionate Faces of the Shires How do your students recognize compassion? Do they recognize it in the faces

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