Courage lives on
This fall, we’ve been talking about everyday courage in schools. We’ve written about the courage it takes to start a
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How to cultivate mindfulness in classrooms
The #everydaycourage of doing nothing As we cultivate more self-direction in students, their lives get more complicated. They have a
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The #everydaycourage of trying again
Seeing failure as iteration A trio of students at Crossett Brook Middle School, in Duxbury VT, have spent the past
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Feedback often feels like criticism. But what if we used it as an opportunity to grow? In third grade, I
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The #everydaycourage of being seen Take the iconic back-to-school prompt for students — what I did on my summer vacation — and
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#everydaycourage is always around us if we can slow down to notice it. I spent many years working in a
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Conversations begin at home. And at the bus stop. Also the market. And– So much of the change we need
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How will your students prepare for active engagement in democracy? Last spring Christie Nold, a 6th grade teacher at Frederick
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3 ways to de-privatize our practice My first teaching job was in the library at a large, open-concept elementary school
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The birth of a YA teacher’s book club “Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong.
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“It really is nice being able to teach others. I know that I had an effect on them.” The Essex
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School leadership in turbulent times As schools prepare to welcome students through their doors, many educators are researching how to
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It takes a courageous village In order for student centered learning to happen, we have to invest in explicitly teaching
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Or, What to Bring to the First Staff Potluck Opening up to fellow educators can be hard. We all know
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It’s time we celebrated it in our schools. When we walk into Vermont schools, we see it. It’s there, every time,
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How to use Google Docs so students talk to you
Using technology to help build relationships [Editorial Note: We originally ran this post back in 2014, but have updated it
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