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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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Middle Grades Institute (MGI)

Margaret Dunne
Identity News 

Exploring Identity with 4th and 5th Graders

June 29, 2021April 12, 2022 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments advisory, goal-setting, identity, MGC, Middle Grades Institute (MGI), Mount Holly, social identity

Margaret Dunne, a fourth and fifth-grade educator at Mount Holly School in Mount Holly VT, originally presented “Exploring Identity with

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News 

Middle Grades Institute Reflections

July 13, 2016July 13, 2016 Katy Farber 0 Comments Middle Grades Institute (MGI)

I’ve just returned from the Middle Grades Institute, and honestly, I am still reeling. My brain is finally slowing down

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms 

Revolutionize student research with Padlet

June 6, 2016November 16, 2016 Life LeGeros 4 Comments Crossett Brook Middle School, MGC, Middle Grades Institute (MGI), padlet

Organize research materials digitally and collaboratively Tiffany Michael, from Crossett Brook Middle School in Waterbury, Vermont, describes how her use

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1:1 norms and digital citizenship action research
Action Research 

Implementing 1:1 norms and digital citizenship

April 25, 2016December 7, 2018 Audrey Homan 3 Comments 1:1, Brattleboro Area Middle School, MGC, Middle Grades Institute (MGI)

How do student behaviors change? Debi Serafino, a math teacher at Brattleboro Area Middle School, presents the results of her semester-long action

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News The 21st Century Classroom 

How Vermont middle grades educators are powering up PLPs this summer

April 8, 2016February 26, 2019 Audrey Homan 2 Comments Middle Grades Institute (MGI)

Why the 2016 Middle Grades Institute may be the most important one yet New podcast ep: We visit with educators

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Uncategorized 

A community-based interdisciplinary unit

April 4, 2016November 16, 2016 Susan Hennessey 6 Comments 1:1, Hazen Union School, MGC, Middle Grades Institute (MGI), Popplet

A tech-rich case study from rural Vermont The team from Hazen Union Middle School, in Hardwick, Vermont, conducted an action research project

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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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Mill River PD action research
Action Research 

How does professional development affect technology integration?

February 29, 2016December 7, 2018 Audrey Homan 11 Comments 1:1, EdPuzzle, Google Classroom, Kahoot, MGC, Middle Grades Institute (MGI), Mill River Union High School, nearpod

The impact of PD in a 1:1 teaching environment A trio of middle grades educators from Mill River Union High

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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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Katie Bryant SLC action research
Action Research Student-Led Conferences 

Student-led conferences and engagement in PLPs

February 10, 2016October 1, 2019 Audrey Homan 11 Comments 1:1, Act 77, family communication, Google Slideshow, Lamoille Union Middle School, MGC, Middle Grades Institute (MGI)

A middle school case study Katie Bryant, an English teacher at Lamoille Union Middle School, presents the results of her

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PLPs and literacy at Crossett Brook Middle School
Action Research 

PLPs and literacy

February 5, 2016December 7, 2018 Life LeGeros 5 Comments Crossett Brook Middle School, MGC, Middle Grades Institute (MGI)

Incorporating student choice into reading This screencast, from Crossett Brook Middle School, in Waterbury, Vermont, describes an action research project based

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Uncategorized 

J is for Just-in-time Learning

September 4, 2015April 22, 2022 Life LeGeros 5 Comments #ABCsofedtech, just-in-time-learning, just-in-time-teaching (JITT), Middle Grades Institute (MGI)

Just-in-time learning in its best form is “Just for me” learning. When you learn something because you yearn to understand

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Uncategorized 

Fostering global connections with Danby, Vermont

February 28, 2014April 13, 2022 Audrey Homan 2 Comments Currier Memorial School, MGC, Middle Grades Institute (MGI)

  This morning we’re honored to be able to share a prezi by Currier Memorial School educator Susan Gibeault, on

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