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    • Ch 2: PLPs Aren’t Just For The Teacher
      • 2.1 Knowing Students Well
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    • Ch 3: Laying The Groundwork for PLPs
      • 3.1 What Are Your Pedagogical Priorities?
      • 3.2 Structures to Support Personalized Learning
    • Ch 4: Starting with the Learner Profile
    • Ch 5: Flexing Your Pathways
      • 5.1 Engaging Pedagogies for All
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Padlet and Flipgrid
Remote Learning 

Scaffolding students with Padlet and Flipgrid

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 TIIE Staff 0 Comments flipgrid, padlet, Proctor Elementary School, Warren Elementary School

Collaboration is not just fun for students, it’s also a crucial skill they will need to be successful in life.

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Remote Learning 

How to use Flipgrid for daily check-ins

March 20, 2020March 22, 2020 Katy Farber 0 Comments flipgrid

I just got off a Google Meet meeting with teachers. They were trying to decide how to engage with students

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STEAM at Ottauquechee
Project-Based Learning Stories from VT Students 

How to build up STEAM

June 6, 2018April 29, 2022 Katy Farber 0 Comments flipgrid, Makerspaces, Ottauquechee School, proficiency-based learning, self-directed learning, transferable skills

Making time for making at Ottauquechee STEAM — Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics — gives students the opportunity to

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4 ways to jazz up an exhibition
Community-based learning 

4 ways to jazz up a school exhibition

April 25, 2018February 13, 2019 Audrey Homan 7 Comments Brattleboro Area Middle School, Burke Town School, digital guestbook, flipgrid, Google Forms, Manchester Elementary-Middle School, school exhibitions

Going beyond the gallery walk Exhibition season is upon us! And as you’re making ready to throw open the doors

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Flipped Classrooms 

How to run a unit across multiple schools

February 5, 2018April 29, 2022 Susan Hennessey 0 Comments flipgrid, Google Drive, Google Team Drive, Hazen Union School, Lamoille Union Middle School, Peoples Academy Middle Level, Schoology, Slack, Trello

Get organized, then get tech Many of your current — or future — collaborators teach at other schools around the

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tech tools for PLPs
PLPs 

3 easy tech tools for PLP reflections

November 29, 2017November 22, 2019 Susan Hennessey 4 Comments Adobe Spark, Answer Garden, flipgrid, Stowe Middle School

Answer Garden, Flipgrid and Adobe Spark “What are you grateful for?”  We posed this question to 7th grade Stowe Middle

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Uncategorized 

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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Uncategorized 

Student motivation in claims, evidence and audience

April 28, 2015 Susan Hennessey 6 Comments authentic audience, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.1a, Common Core, Debate Graph, flipgrid, Google+ Communities, iCivics

What makes an argument worth making? Recently, I was working with a colleague about getting students more jazzed to dive deep

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