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Innovative Education in VT

A blog exploring innovative school change by the UVM Tarrant Institute

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      • 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
      • Chapter References
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Harwood Union High School

The 21st Century Classroom 

Tackling school change as a community

November 15, 2016February 26, 2019 Audrey Homan 1 Comment Crossett Brook Middle School, Harwood Union High School, Moretown Elementary School, WWSU

Community conversations about education What would you tell your neighbors about your school? What do you think they’d say in

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News 

Facilitating community conversations about education

April 6, 2016April 6, 2016 Life LeGeros 5 Comments Harwood Union High School, Washington West Supervisory Union

4 lessons learned A few months back, I wrote about how the Washington West Supervisory Union (WWSU) here in Vermont

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"Goal-setting as a process: Teaching Students How to Set and Achieve Personal EXploration Goals" by Lissa Fox
Action Research 

Teaching students how to set personal exploration goals

February 22, 2016December 7, 2018 Life LeGeros 10 Comments goal-setting, Harwood Union High School, MGC, Middle Grades Institute (MGI)

Goal-setting as a process This presentation, delivered by Harwood Union High School teacher Lissa Fox at the 2016 Middle Grades Conference, describes

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms 

Using Schoology for differentiated learning

December 5, 2014 Audrey Homan 6 Comments Harwood Union High School, LMS, Schoology, Vermont

Addressing student mastery and learning targets in an LMS Kristi McKnight, a 9th grade teacher at Harwood Union High School in

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Augmented Reality ePortfolios Innovative Edtech Classrooms News 

Innovative learning shared at Nashville conference

November 13, 2014 John Downes 5 Comments assessment, augmented reality, Harwood Union High School, learning management systems

Music City learns a thing or two about Vermont ed tech Half of the Tarrant Institute staff and a special guest headed

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms News 

Personalizing Vermont’s education system

November 7, 2014November 8, 2014 Audrey Homan 13 Comments Crossett Brook Middle School, Edmunds Middle School, Harwood Union High School, Main Street Middle School, Mt. Abraham Union Middle/High School, Northfield High School, PLPs, Randolph High School, Vermont

Move to implement PLPs reflected at two local conferences for educators Fall in Vermont features two amazing local conferences for

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UPCOMING EVENTS

 

  • 1/23: 2021 MIDDLE GRADES CONFERENCE #mgcollab
  • 1/28 @ 3pm EST: Innovating in the Classroom with Interactive 3D Tools
  • 2/4 @ 3:30pm EST: Who’s Outside? Building an Anti-Racist Bookshelf
  • 2/9 @ 4pm EST: De-Colonializing Place-Based Education
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