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    • How to use this Educator’s Guide
    • Ch 1: Defining Personalized Learning
      • 1.1 The Three Pillars of Personalized Learning
      • 1.2 The Definition of a PLP
      • 1.3 New Student & Teacher Roles
    • Ch 2: PLPs Aren’t Just For The Teacher
      • 2.1 Knowing Students Well
      • 2.2 Avoid the Pitfalls!
    • 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
    • Ch. 6: Scaffolding for Equitable, Deeper Learning
    • Ch 7: PLPs & Proficiency-Based Assessment
    • Ch 8: Student-led PLP conferences
    • Ch 9: Sustaining Innovation
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Innovative Edtech Classrooms 

How to get students to communicate with families

September 14, 2018January 5, 2019 Audrey Homan 1 Comment explain everything, family communication, family engagement, family involvement, Google Drive, Peoples Academy Middle Level

Welcome to the Best Part of My Week And yours, likely. Peoples Academy Middle Level educator Joe Speers shares how

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Flipped Classrooms 

How to run a unit across multiple schools

February 5, 2018February 5, 2018 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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Flipped Classrooms 

How to save, edit and share video clips with your students

November 11, 2015November 11, 2015 Scott Thompson 10 Comments flipped classroom, Google Classroom, Google Drive, YouTube

Part 2: sharing videos in Google Classroom, Drive, and YouTube In Part 1, we looked at tools for finding and editing

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Augmented Reality 

3 ways to use Chatterpix with maps

May 10, 2015May 17, 2015 Audrey Homan 11 Comments ARIS, Aurasma, Chatterpix, geography, Google Drive, hidden object games, Thinglink

Thinglink, augmented reality and gaming Alert reader Lucia Hoegeveen asked a question about our suggestion that you create a map of a

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News 

What We’re Reading: iPad management in the classroom

April 23, 2015 Audrey Homan 8 Comments device management, Google Drive

Tips and tricks from around the edtech world Successful and powerful integration of iPads in the classroom depends in no

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Tools We Like 

How to add footnotes to Google Docs on your iPad

October 8, 2014March 6, 2017 Susan Hennessey 6 Comments Google Drive

Cite your sources as you write I was working with a teacher the other day who expressed some frustration around

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Videos 

How-to: Use Google Docs to reinforce formal vs informal writing

January 17, 2014September 24, 2014 Audrey Homan 1 Comment Google Drive, Peoples Academy Middle Level

  PAML 6th grade educator and all-around good egg Joe Speers returns to the blog to with another #1minutehowto, this

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Uncategorized 

A Google Drive lesson for iPads + iPad skill checklist

November 11, 2013 Audrey Homan 0 Comments 1:1, Google Drive, iPads

Meet Theresa White. She teaches 4th and 5th grade at Roxbury Village School, and this past summer, in preparation for

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms Tools We Like Videos 

From a 1:1 toolkit: organizing student work on iPads with Google Drive

November 6, 2013 Audrey Homan 2 Comments Google Drive, Peoples Academy Middle Level

Peoples Academy Middle Level (PAML) educator Joe Speers returns with an explanation of how PAML uses Google Drive on iPads

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