equity Archives : Innovative Education in VT

#vted Reads: Hemingway, with Elijah Hawkes

June 8, 2020 Audrey Homan 1 Comment Cherie Dimaline, equity, Ernest Hemingway, racial justice, Ruha Benjamin, social justice, The Marrow Thieves

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Listeners: our hearts are breaking. Our hearts are breaking for all of Vermont’s Black students, Black educators, and Black families.

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Virtual video walkie-talkies? Meet the Marco Polo app

May 21, 2020May 26, 2020 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments asynchronous messaging, broadband, equity, video notes

Why the Marco Polo app? With social distancing and remote learning on educators’ minds, there’s never been a more urgent

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#vted Reads: Juliet Takes a Breath

February 7, 2020February 11, 2021 Audrey Homan 0 Comments allyship, equity, microaggressions, preferred pronouns

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Welcome back to #vted Reads! The podcast for, with and by Vermont educators. I’m Jeanie Phillips and in this episode,

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A critical lens on project-based learning

January 27, 2020February 25, 2020 Audrey Homan 3 Comments asset-based pedagogy, Burke Town School, Edmunds Middle School, equity

When we talk about a student in an intervention meeting, we often start with what is amazing about that student.

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What CVU students want you to know about education

January 20, 2020February 25, 2020 Audrey Homan 2 Comments Champlain Valley Union High School, equity

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Today on the 21st Century Classroom: Beckett: When the school systems were created was to produce factory workers, to have

On The Come Up: guest Marley Evans, left, with host Jeanie Phillips.

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#vted Reads: On The Come Up

November 18, 2019February 11, 2021 Audrey Homan 0 Comments Angie Thomas, Charlotte Central School, equity, Marley Evans, Mississippi, systemic racism, trauma-informed education

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Hoo boy, we have a CORKER of an episode for you today, with On The Come Up, by Angie Thomas.

The End of Average by Todd Rose. With Jeanie Phillips (l) and Emily Gilmore (r)

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#vted Reads: The End of Average

October 30, 2019April 12, 2022 Jeanie Phillips 1 Comment advisory, Emily Gilmore, equity, goal-setting, identity, Radiolab, social identity, South Burlington High School, Todd Rose

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Today on the show, we’re going to talk about The End of Average: How to Succeed in a World That

Jeanie Phillips (l) & Thierry Uwilingiyimana with Place-Based Curriculum Design, by Amy Demarest

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#vted Reads: Place-Based Curriculum Design

October 2, 2019October 11, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 4 Comments Amy Demarest, equity, Paulo Freire, place-based learning, Ruja Benjamin, Thierry Uwilingiyimana, Winooski Middle School

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This episode is all. About. QUESTIONS. Why are we here? Who was here before us? What kinds of stories do

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#vted Reads: The Benefits of Being an Octopus

September 18, 2019April 13, 2022 Jeanie Phillips 2 Comments Ann Braden, Corey Smith, equity, Equity Literacy Framework, poverty, the benefits of being an octopus

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This one goes deep, folks. On this episode educator Corey Smith joins me to talk about The Benefits of Being

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3 ways to ensure equity is at the heart of your work

September 9, 2019April 29, 2022 Scott Thompson 0 Comments Act 77, equity, equity audits, Equity Literacy Framework, Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, Paul Gorski, Teaching Tolerance, Vermont Agency of Education

VTDigger reports that Vermont Secretary of Education Dan French said “From our standpoint, we portray districts being on a journey.

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Getting personal about systemic equity

June 24, 2019March 22, 2021 Life LeGeros 2 Comments Chamberlin Elementary School, Christie Nold, equity, Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, Hannah Miller, Jeff Novak, Kathleen Brinegar, Lamoille South Supervisory Union, South Burlington High School, South Burlington School District, Tracy Wrend

Sometimes pursuing systemic equity in education can feel a little like the carrot vs. the stick. Since No Child Left

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Using protocols for equity

June 7, 2019April 29, 2022 Jeanie Phillips 3 Comments equity, norms, School Reform Initiative, TIIE dogs

So, maybe you’ve been using protocols at faculty meetings or professional learning community sessions. Perhaps you’ve found that they make

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#vted Reads: Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty

June 5, 2019March 23, 2021 Jeanie Phillips 2 Comments dress codes, equity, Green Mountain Union High School, Paul Gorski, poverty, social justice

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In this episode of #vted Reads, I return to my old stomping grounds at Green Mountain Union High School. I’m

Host Jeanie Phillips, left, with guest Annie Brabazon, right and a copy of No Fixed Address.

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#vted Reads: No Fixed Address with Annie Brabazon

May 29, 2019February 11, 2021 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments Annie Brabazon, dcf awards, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, equity, homelessness in fiction, housing insecurity, poverty

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Reader, today we’re going to talk toilets. Now, not in a weird way or a gross way, but because they’re

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Ottauquechee’s Diversity Detectives in:

May 17, 2019May 19, 2019 Katy Farber 0 Comments equity, Ottauquechee School

The Case of The Library Diversity Audit Whose stories are being told in your library? Whose stories are being left

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#vted Reads: We Got This, with Kathleen Brinegar

May 15, 2019February 11, 2021 Jeanie Phillips 1 Comment action research, colonization, Cornelius Minor, equity, Kathleen Brinegar, pre-service educators, teacher-educators

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Cornelius Minor likes to ask himself three key questions. One: what are his students trying to tell him? Two: What

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Vermont schools have a transportation equity problem.

April 26, 2019March 23, 2021 Katy Farber 0 Comments #fleetofvans, Act 77, equity, rural schooling, transportation

When I travel to schools around Vermont, I hear many versions of the same concerns: Going anywhere from our school

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Equity and the in-school business

April 15, 2019March 23, 2021 Audrey Homan 1 Comment culture, economics, equity, field trips, holiday bazaar, in-school business, Mettawee Community School

Mettawee Community School, in West Pawlet VT, loves tradition. They’re a small, tight-knit school in a rural area, and home

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#vted Reads: The 57 Bus with Caitlin Classen

March 6, 2019March 6, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 3 Comments Albert D. Lawton Intermediate School, Caitlin Classen, Dashka Slater, equity, narrative nonfiction, poverty, restorative justice, social justice, The 57 Bus, violence in a community

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In this episode of #vted Reads, we talk about the 57 Bus by Dashka Slater. Based on a real-life incident,

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#vted Reads: Orbiting Jupiter, with Stacy Raphael

February 8, 2019February 7, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments bias, equity, Gary Schmidt, Orbiting Jupiter

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First, what is #vted Reads? Big news, listeners! #vted Reads has spun off from The 21st Century Classroom and

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Unpacking equity in Passion Projects and Genius Hours

January 9, 2019March 22, 2021 Katy Farber 0 Comments equity, genius hours, the benefits of being an octopus

Equity in education has — and needs — many lenses. The work is hard, the work is myriad, the work

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VT Secretary of Education speaks on equity in Vermont

October 12, 2016March 22, 2021 Audrey Homan 0 Comments equity, VT Agency of Education

“I don’t believe you can be an educator committed to student voice and not be a powerful advocate for equity.”

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What work-based learning in Vermont can look like

October 10, 2016October 10, 2016 Audrey Homan 2 Comments equity, Randolph Union High School

On exploring flexible pathways to learning This past August, Vermont Secretary of Education Dr Rebecca Holcombe addressed the 2016 Amplifying

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Z is for Generation Z

October 27, 2015February 26, 2019 Audrey Homan 16 Comments #ABCsofedtech, Crossett Brook Middle School, digital natives, equity, Generation Z, Warren Elementary School

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Who are Generation Z? The term Generation Z refers to teens and pre-teens born after 1995 and was officially launched

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X is for eXtra credit

October 14, 2015April 19, 2018 Audrey Homan 4 Comments #ABCsofedtech, equity, proficiency-based assessment

How does edtech affect extra credit? Is extra credit still a valid notion as we move towards ubiquitous learning, and grapple

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Beyond Bling: how do we deepen Makerspace learning?

June 3, 2015June 3, 2015 Lucie deLaBruere 13 Comments equity, Makerspaces, STEM

How do we move all new learners to the deep end of the pool? As I walked through an innovation

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Equity and technology in schools

December 8, 2014April 15, 2022 Audrey Homan 3 Comments equity

How do you level the digital playing field?How do you even start taking on a task like that? Equity has always

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Is extra credit an equity issue?

September 3, 2014March 22, 2021 Alex Shevrin 12 Comments equity

What is the worst consequence of our best idea? That’s a question that Chris Lehmann, founding principal of the Science

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Digital divide in the classroom

April 29, 2014April 29, 2014 Diana Gonzalez 10 Comments digital divide, equity, family involvement, teacher awareness

Digital divide[1], participation gap[2], cultural divide[3]: over the decades the language of equity issues in technology have shifted along with