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Transferable Skills 

5 fresh ways to power up morning meetings

September 6, 2019September 10, 2019 1 Comment morning meeting, Newsela, The State of the Class, Warren Elementary School, What's Up in the World?

  Morning meetings are the norm in many K-6 and K-8 schools in Vermont. They’re a great way to empower

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms 

5 online resources for teaching current events

October 13, 2017February 13, 2019 Jeanie Phillips 0 Comments #FergusonSyllabus, Allsides, Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, Listenwise, Newsela, Vermont Online Library

When things get tough, the tough use tools. Whether you’re actively trying to embed current events in your curriculum or

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Tools We Like 

The tech-rich social studies classroom

April 5, 2017April 5, 2017 Susan Hennessey 1 Comment EdPuzzle, Kahoot, nearpod, Newsela, Socrative

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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How to fight fake news in the field

February 27, 2017October 13, 2017 Katy Farber 0 Comments Canva, fake news, media literacy, Newsela, social justice

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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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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Differentiated social reading with Subtext

September 17, 2014 Susan Hennessey 3 Comments differentiated learning, lexile levels, Newsela, reading, social reading, Subtext

Make the most of Subtext’s capacity for differentiated reading A-reading we will go, A-reading we will go, hey ho the dairy-o, a

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