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Courage lives on

September 24, 2017April 19, 2018 Katy Farber 0 Comments #everydaycourage

  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

September 21, 2017April 19, 2018 Emily Hoyler 1 Comment #everydaycourage, Cornwall School

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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Self-directed learning Stories from VT Students 

The #everydaycourage of trying again

September 18, 2017September 19, 2018 Life LeGeros 0 Comments #everydaycourage, Crossett Brook Middle School

Seeing failure as iteration A trio of students at Crossett Brook Middle School, in Duxbury VT, have spent the past

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The #everydaycourage of staying curious in the face of negative feedback

September 15, 2017April 19, 2018 Emily Hoyler 0 Comments #everydaycourage

Feedback often feels like criticism. But what if we used it as an opportunity to grow? In third grade, I

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4 ways Vermont educators are sharing their practice

September 13, 2017June 18, 2018 Susan Hennessey 1 Comment #everydaycourage, Crossett Brook Middle School, Learning Lab, Shelburne Community School

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 and trauma-informed education

September 11, 2017August 7, 2019 Alex Shevrin 0 Comments #everydaycourage, trauma-informed education

#everydaycourage is always around us if we can slow down to notice it. I spent many years working in a

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How to start a difficult conversation

September 8, 2017June 18, 2018 Audrey Homan 0 Comments #everydaycourage, Champlain Valley Union High School, The Cabot School, Washington West Supervisory Union, WWSU

Conversations begin at home. And at the bus stop. Also the market. And– So much of the change we need

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The #everydaycourage of talking about race in Vermont schools

September 7, 2017June 18, 2018 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments #everydaycourage, equity, Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, social justice

How will your students prepare for active engagement in democracy? Last spring Christie Nold, a 6th grade teacher at Frederick

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The #everydaycourage of sharing our work as educators

September 1, 2017June 18, 2018 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments #everydaycourage, collaboration

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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Diverse books for conversations around identity

August 30, 2017June 18, 2018 Katy Farber 0 Comments #everydaycourage, literacy, media literacy, social justice

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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What it looks like when students teach

August 29, 2017April 29, 2022 Audrey Homan 0 Comments #everydaycourage, Essex High School

“It really is nice being able to teach others. I know that I had an effect on them.” The Essex

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#vted leads the way with #everydaycourage

August 28, 2017June 18, 2018 Scott Thompson 0 Comments #everydaycourage, Burlington High School, Franklin West Supervisory Union, MMMUSD-CESU, VT Agency of Education

School leadership in turbulent times As schools prepare to welcome students through their doors, many educators are researching how to

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A Developmental Designs approach to student-directed learning

August 25, 2017June 18, 2018 Rachel Mark 1 Comment #everydaycourage, Brattleboro Area Middle School, developmental designs

It takes a courageous village In order for student centered learning to happen, we have to invest in explicitly teaching

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Laying the groundwork for effective teaching teams

August 23, 2017August 29, 2022 Katy Farber 1 Comment #everydaycourage, Canva, co-teaching, flipgrid, Google Docs, teaming, Thinglink

Or, What to Bring to the First Staff Potluck Opening up to fellow educators can be hard. We all know

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#everydaycourage

August 22, 2017November 21, 2018 Rachel Mark 1 Comment #everydaycourage, back-to-school

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

April 20, 2017March 20, 2020 Audrey Homan 10 Comments #everydaycourage, Edmunds Middle School, Google Docs, Google Forms, trauma-informed education

Using technology to help build relationships [Editorial Note: We originally ran this post back in 2014, but have updated it

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