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      • Ch 1: Defining Personalized Learning
        • 1.1 The Three Pillars of Personalized Learning
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      • 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
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      • Ch 8: Student-led PLP conferences
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4 end-of-year activities for advisory

June 11, 2017June 16, 2017 Rachel Mark 0 Comments advisory, Flipboard, Google Sites, Manchester Elementary-Middle School

Acknowledge, share, recognize The end of the school year is every bit as happy and joyous as it is chaotic

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Personalized Learning Plans (PLPs) 

How students tell their PLP stories

June 24, 2016October 24, 2019 Life LeGeros 1 Comment Adobe Voice, Blogger, Dynamic Landscapes, explain everything, Fayston Elementary School, Google Sites

Scaffolding PLPs so students understand them 5th and 6th graders from Fayston Elementary School took their personal learning plans (PLP)

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using digital tools to change student goal-setting and reflection
Action Research Goal-setting 

Using digital tools to change student goal-setting and reflection

March 14, 2016December 7, 2018 Audrey Homan 6 Comments 1:1, goal-setting, Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Sites, MGC, Shrewsbury Mountain School, Wallingford Elementary School

Measuring how students approach goal-setting in the 5th and 6th grades   Educators at Wallingford Elementary School and Shrewsbury Mountain

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Google Tools for personal learning plans
Action Research 

Google Tools for personal learning plans (PLPs)

March 7, 2016December 7, 2018 Life LeGeros 13 Comments 1:1, Google Classroom, Google Docs, Google Drawings, Google Sites, Google Slides, Lucid Press, MGC, Middle Grades Institute (MGI), Williston Central School

A teacher-authored case study Today we hear from a grade 5-6 team venturing into the world of personal learning plans (PLPs)

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ePortfolios Tools We Like 

Screencast-o-matic on the Macbook

January 21, 2016 Audrey Homan 4 Comments Google Sites, Screencast-o-matic, Wallingford Elementary School

A step-by-step tutorial We helped one of our partner schools, Wallingford Elementary in Wallingford, Vermont, get set up with screencasting

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identity in PLPs
Identity 

I is for Identity

September 2, 2015October 2, 2018 Rachel Mark 5 Comments #ABCsofedtech, Book Creator, Edmunds Middle School, evernote, Flipboard, Google Sites, Harwood Union Middle School, PLPs, Young Writers Project

3 tech-rich strategies for exploring identity with students “Who am I?” is the question at the heart of the adolescent

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Digital Display: add Credly badges to Google Sites

March 13, 2015March 14, 2015 Susan Hennessey 6 Comments badges, badgestack, credly, digital portfolios, Google Sites

100 years of Girl Scouts can’t be wrong Digital badges have potential to serve as both markers of achievement and

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