Using Seesaw with Google Classroom for PLPs
How can educators manage PLPs in remote learning? What goes into a Learning Management System? And what does it look
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personalized learning plans
Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades
How do educators personalize learning to engage, inspire & motivate students? We’re pleased to share that our new book,
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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
Read moreLearn Like a Pirate: Key takeaways
Katy’s 2016 Summer Reading Something about this book title and summer reading fits perfectly. The open ocean, pirates, and fierce
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Negotiated curriculum and project-based learning
Building a democratic classroom at The Edge Part of the power of implementing a negotiated curriculum is that it doesn’t
Read moreScreencast-o-matic on the Macbook
A step-by-step tutorial We helped one of our partner schools, Wallingford Elementary in Wallingford, Vermont, get set up with screencasting
Read moreWhat makes for good goal-setting in a PLP?
Life’s four guidelines for goal-setting In my experience as a teacher and administrator, I noticed a pattern to goal-setting in
Read moreVermont Fest 2015
Heading to the slopes for Vermont Fest The lifts are open, but the lure of first tracks is not what
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I is for Identity
3 tech-rich strategies for exploring identity with students “Who am I?” is the question at the heart of the adolescent
Read more4 educators reflect on personalized learning
Setting goals for summer learning and beyond It’s Day 3 of the 2015 Middle Grades Institute, a gathering of more
Read moreProfessional development through Google Hangouts
Two years ago, our middle level team undertook a pilot project to begin work on personal learning plans (PLPs). Under
Read morePersonalized STEM learning at Essex High School
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New podcast episode: Essex STEM Academy In this episode, we talk with math educator and STEM Academy leader Lea Ann
Read moreDigital Display: add Credly badges to Google Sites
100 years of Girl Scouts can’t be wrong Digital badges have potential to serve as both markers of achievement and
Read moreStoring digital badges for portfolios
What are some mechanisms for keeping track of digital credentials? As we work with schools who are piloting digital badge
Read more3 tools for interactive timelines
Find new uses for data visualization Free, online timeline tools allow students to break free of the traditional two-dimensional timeline
Read moreLinks Round Up: Goal-Setting for Personalized Learning
Give your students ownership over their learning through goal-setting activities Happy New Year! With school back in session and a
Read moreMultiple learning pathways with MOOCs
What does change really look like? I’ve been on the search for examples of teachers creating multiple learning pathways in
Read moreInnovative learning shared at Nashville conference
Music City learns a thing or two about Vermont ed tech Half of the Tarrant Institute staff and a special guest headed
Read morePersonalizing Vermont’s education system
Move to implement PLPs reflected at two local conferences for educators Fall in Vermont features two amazing local conferences for
Read more4 ways personalized learning plans are taking off in Vermont
Educators are embracing digital tools for planning and sharing Personalized learning plans, or PLPs, are non-traditional pathways by which students
Read moreePortfolios with Evernote at Harwood Union Middle School
Students are creating narrated, curated and portable evidence of their work Back in November, a group of educators from Harwood
Read moreDigital badging, e-portfolios and alternative credentialing
Tarrant Institute professional development coordinator Susan Hennessey discusses the current and future possibilities of digital badging, e-portfolios and alternative credentialing,
Read moreiPad how-to: saving auras to your Evernote portfolio
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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