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A blog exploring innovative school change by the UVM Tarrant Institute

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      • Penny Bishop
      • John Downes
      • Susan Hennessey
      • Audrey Homan
      • Emily Hoyler
      • Life LeGeros
      • Rachel Mark
      • Robin Merritt
      • Jeanie Phillips
      • Scott Thompson
      • Lucie delaBruere
    • Our schools
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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
      • Chapter References
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    • Proficiency-Based Learning Videos
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    • REMOTE LEARNING
    • PERSONALIZED LEARNING
      • PERSONALIZED LEARNING PLANS (PLPs)
      • FLEXIBLE PATHWAYS
      • PROFICIENCY-BASED EDUCATION
        • Learning Goals
        • Meaningful Instruction
        • Formative Assessment
        • Summative Assessment
    • Action research
    • Digital citizenship
    • Family & Community Involvement
    • Family communication
    • Flexible classrooms
    • Genius Hour
    • Identity
    • Makerspaces
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Harwood Union Middle School

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4 ways to help middle school students organize their tech

March 16, 2017March 16, 2017 Katy Farber 2 Comments Christ the King School, Harwood Union Middle School, Peoples Academy Middle Level

Standard 3-part story-driven post: 1) what it is, 2) what it looks like in a school, 3) how to do it in your school

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proficiency-based learning: setting a goal with a guitar
Goal-setting Proficiency-Based Learning 

3 visualization exercises for proficiency-based learning

October 27, 2016December 7, 2018 Susan Hennessey 1 Comment Harwood Union Middle School, Hazen Union School, Stowe Middle School

Outcomes, process and automaticity I worked with a group of teachers this summer to re-think goal-setting with their students. We

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Assessment Proficiency-Based Learning 

4 ways to begin using scales for assessment

October 19, 2016October 15, 2019 Life LeGeros 3 Comments Crossett Brook Middle School, Harwood Union Middle School, Peoples Academy Middle Level

Getting started assessing proficiency School systems in Vermont and elsewhere are in the midst of a shift to proficiency-based learning.

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W is for Weekly Geek Podcast

October 13, 2015April 19, 2018 Susan Hennessey 1 Comment #ABCsofedtech, Doink, Edmunds Middle School, Harwood Union Middle School, Lamoille Union Middle School, public service announcements, Voice Record

Creative ways to share learning opportunities Teachers at Lamoille Union Middle/High School learn about the latest tools and resources available

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L is for Learning Management System (LMS)

September 10, 2015April 19, 2018 Rachel Mark 7 Comments #ABCsofedtech, Canvas, edmodo, Edmunds Middle School, Google Classroom, Harwood Union Middle School, LMS, Peoples Academy Middle Level, Schoology

What can you do with an LMS? LMS stands for Learning Management System. An LMS is an application for planning, delivering, managing,

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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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F is for Family Communication

August 28, 2015February 2, 2016 Audrey Homan 7 Comments Flipboard, Google Calendar, Google+, Harwood Union Middle School, Mailchimp, Shelburne Community School, Symbaloo

4 edtech tools for family communication How can technology help make communicating with your students’ families easier? These 4 edtech tools

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iBook Authors at Harwood Union Middle School

October 27, 2014October 27, 2014 Susan Hennessey 6 Comments Harwood Union Middle School, iBooks, reading, Shadow Puppet, Vermont

Be your own Hero Using the free iOS Shadow Puppet app, I created this brief look at an amazing unit

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Tools We Like 

Too much good stuff: a wealth of reading and curation resources for the classroom

October 17, 2014October 17, 2014 Susan Hennessey 5 Comments ATOS, Clearly, diigo, Harwood Union Middle School, iSpeak, Kahoot, lexile levels, Newsela, Read and Write with Google, Spritz, Subtext

The technology cannot thwart us, it can only make us stronger As many of you are aware, I was out

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms News 

4 ways personalized learning plans are taking off in Vermont

September 26, 2014May 27, 2015 Audrey Homan 3 Comments differentiation, Google Hangout, Harwood Union Middle School, Main Street Middle School, Montpelier High School, personalized learning plans, PLPs, pre-service educators, Vermont

Educators are embracing digital tools for planning and sharing Personalized learning plans, or PLPs, are non-traditional pathways by which students

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Essays on Rube Goldberg: capturing the scientific process with iPads

April 21, 2014September 19, 2018 Audrey Homan 5 Comments Google Docs, Harwood Union Middle School, iPads, physics, Schoology

How one class of 8th grade scientists at Harwood Union Middle School used Google Docs, Schoology, and iPads to capture

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Stories from VT Students 

Authentic cell biology with Notability on the iPad

April 14, 2014September 19, 2018 Audrey Homan 4 Comments cell biology, Harwood Union Middle School, iPads, Notability, STEM

This spring, Nancy Spencer and her class discovered something amazing about their cheek cells. The students discovered that by placing

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ePortfolios 

ePortfolios with Evernote at Harwood Union Middle School

March 20, 2014September 19, 2018 Audrey Homan 6 Comments evernote, Harwood Union Middle School

Students are creating narrated, curated and portable evidence of their work Back in November, a group of educators from Harwood

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Augmented Reality ePortfolios Innovative Edtech Classrooms Videos 

iPad how-to: saving auras to your Evernote portfolio

December 5, 2013July 30, 2014 Audrey Homan 0 Comments augmented reality, Aurasma, evernote, Harwood Union Middle School

A 1-minute iPad how-to from Harwood Union Middle School science educator Brian Wagner, showing you how to save augmented reality

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Augmented Reality Tools We Like 

Meet Aurasma: an augmented reality app for the classroom

September 19, 2013July 30, 2014 Audrey Homan 2 Comments augmented reality, Aurasma, Harwood Union Middle School

Augmented reality apps allow users to experience a layer of additional information — usually visual or auditory — meshed with

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms Tools We Like Videos 

Explain Everything, um, explained.

June 26, 2013 Audrey Homan 1 Comment explain everything, Harwood Union Middle School, iPads

A middle-schooler from Harwood explains how they’re using Explain Everything for a class project to capture stills and videos.

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Tools We Like Videos 

How to: use iMovie on the iPad

June 20, 2013 Audrey Homan 0 Comments Harwood Union Middle School, iMovie, student voice

A brief but effective demonstration of how to use iMovie to construct a poem recital video, courtesy a student at

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms 

In the spotlight: Harwood Union Middle School

June 17, 2013 Audrey Homan 0 Comments Harwood Union Middle School, student voice

Traveled down to Harwood Union Middle School in Moretown VT on Friday to interview some of the students and teachers

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms Tools We Like 

Brian Wagner on Aurasma, continued

May 27, 2013 Audrey Homan 1 Comment augmented reality, Aurasma, chemistry, explain everything, Harwood Union Middle School, STEM

Page 1 | 2 The annual Rube Goldberg Challenge is an opportunity for students to engage in their inner creative,

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms 

Brian Wagner on: Aurasma and the Periodic Table

May 27, 2013October 2, 2014 Audrey Homan 1 Comment augmented reality, Aurasma, chemistry, Harwood Union Middle School, iMovie, Skitch, Socrative, STEM

An augmented reality periodic table One of our partner educators, Brian Wagner, teaches eighth grade science at Harwood Union Middle

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