Skip to content

Innovative Education in VT

A blog exploring innovative, personalized, student-centered school change

  • ABOUT US
    • We stand against systemic racism.
    • Our Communications Diversity Policy
    • The Tarrant Institute
    • Our staff
      • John Downes
      • Emily Hoyler
      • Life LeGeros
      • Rachel Mark
    • Our schools
  • Our book
    • 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
  • TOOLKITS
    • Action research
    • Adult Culture
    • Advisory
    • Digital citizenship
    • Community & Culture
    • Equity toolkit
    • Essential Skills & Dispositions Toolkit
    • Family & Community Involvement
    • Flexible classrooms
    • Genius Hour
    • Identity
    • Makerspaces
    • Negotiated curriculum
    • Personalized Learning Plans (PLPs)
    • Proficiency-Based Education
      • Learning Goals
      • Formative Assessment
      • Summative Assessment
    • Project-Based Learning
    • Reflection
    • Remote Learning
    • Scheduling
    • Service learning
    • Student-led conferences
  • VIDEOS
    • Middle Grades Conference (MGC)
    • PLP videos
    • Proficiency-Based Learning Videos
    • Student-Led Conference Videos
    • Tech Tips
  • PODCAST
    • #vted Reads Episode List
    • #vted Reads Videos
  • ARCHIVES
  • EVENTS & COURSES
  • CONTACT

Ottauquechee School

PLPs in Seesaw
PLPs Student-Led Conferences 

PLPs in Seesaw

October 28, 2019February 25, 2020 Audrey Homan 0 Comments Ottauquechee School, Seesaw, Sutton School

Seeing students for who they are and what they can do We’re all still looking at various tools for building

Read more
ThisIsVTED 

How to do a library diversity audit

May 27, 2019June 4, 2019 Audrey Homan 1 Comment equity, librarians, Ottauquechee School, social justice, student voice

7 tips for educators Create a place where all students lives are seen and valued. Expand the idea of what

Read more
Stories from VT Students ThisIsVTED 

Can Minecraft save the world?

May 24, 2019June 4, 2019 Katy Farber 0 Comments Global Goals, minecraft, Ottauquechee School

These 4th graders say yes. With a little help from the UN’s Global Goals. Students at Ottauquechee Elementary School took

Read more
Diversity Detectives library audit banner
Uncategorized 

Ottauquechee’s Diversity Detectives in:

May 17, 2019May 19, 2019 Katy Farber 0 Comments equity, Ottauquechee School

The Case of The Library Diversity Audit Whose stories are being told in your library? Whose stories are being left

Read more
student-directed classroom
Action Research 

Toward a student-directed classroom

February 11, 2019April 1, 2019 Katy Farber 0 Comments MGC, Ottauquechee School

Releasing responsibility in Ottauquechee Ottauquechee Elementary School teacher Kim Dumont had a vision. She wanted to build her students’s self-direction

Read more
Ottauquechees global connections
Flipped Classrooms 

How can students make global connections?

February 1, 2019April 29, 2022 Katy Farber 0 Comments Empatico, global connection, global education, Ottauquechee School

  From Vermont to Mexico and back, via Smart Board As the world becomes increasingly more connected, so should our

Read more
STEAM at Ottauquechee
Project-Based Learning Stories from VT Students 

How to build up STEAM

June 6, 2018April 29, 2022 Katy Farber 0 Comments flipgrid, Makerspaces, Ottauquechee School, proficiency-based learning, self-directed learning, transferable skills

Making time for making at Ottauquechee STEAM — Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics — gives students the opportunity to

Read more

Subscribe via email

APPLY ONLINE

UVM Tarrant Institute Learning Lab

Recent posts

  • Introducing our Equity Toolkit
  • Prioritizing daily movement and experiential learning in Newark
  • Introducing our new Project Based Learning toolkit
  • Winter Break Reading & Listening: 2022 Edition
  • Introducing our new Advisory toolkit

POST ARCHIVES

We aim to create a website that’s accessible to all visitors, including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. If there’s additional functionality we could be providing, please get in touch.

 

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

 

Copyright © 2023 Innovative Education in VT. All rights reserved.
Theme: ColorMag by ThemeGrill. Powered by WordPress.
 

Loading Comments...