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Shelburne Community School

Learning Lab VT 

Sam Nelson’s Bright Spots & Belly Flops

April 12, 2019November 15, 2019 Audrey Homan bright spots and belly flops, Shelburne Community School

What’s the plan? Here’s a quick reminder of my focus question for this year’s Learning Lab: How can social justice

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Phys ed 2.0: More learning, less suffering

May 30, 2018June 18, 2018 Life LeGeros 0 Comments Crossett Brook Middle School, heart rate monitors, PE, phys ed, physical education, Shelburne Community School

Personalizing PE In this era of personalized learning, it’s not just the jocks that find P.E. enjoyable. At Crossett Brook

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Reflection 

3 ways to use Flipgrid for reflection

April 18, 2018May 5, 2018 Scott Thompson 3 Comments distance learning, exit tickets, Shelburne Community School

Video reflection + social interaction The role of feedback and reflection are key strategies in best middle level practice for

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Teddy Shelburne Community School
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Therapy dogs in Vermont schools

April 9, 2018August 7, 2019 Scott Thompson 2 Comments Crossett Brook Middle School, Shelburne Community School, therapy dogs, trauma-informed education

Who let the dogs in? For some students, being ready to learn when they arrive at school is a big

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Videos 

How to bake an inspiring kickoff video

March 12, 2018August 7, 2019 Audrey Homan 0 Comments Berlin Elementary School, Brainado, Crossett Brook Middle School, digital storytelling, Kickoff, project launch, Shelburne Community School, video in the classroom

Launching a new project cycle with inspiration from the last one Organizing your realia — testimonials, storytelling and artifacts —

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brainado and the rise of the project-based PLP
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The rise of the project-based PLP

January 12, 2018September 26, 2018 Life LeGeros 1 Comment Crossett Brook Middle School, Fayston Elementary School, Shelburne Community School

A new recipe for Personalized Learning Plans Rather than trying to get students to care about existing PLPs, some schools

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student architects of Shelburne Community School
Project-Based Learning Real World PBL Stories from VT Students 

The student architects of Shelburne VT

October 27, 2017September 19, 2018 Audrey Homan 1 Comment architecture, civic involvement, Google Sketch-Up, math, school boards, Shelburne Community School

Making math real-world relevant Would you tell the school board how to redesign your school? Students at Shelburne Community School,

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Transferable Skills 

The Maker Movement and transferable skills

October 3, 2017June 18, 2018 Lucie deLaBruere 1 Comment Crossett Brook Middle School, makerspace, Shelburne Community School, West Rutland School

Making as evidence of transferable skills around Vermont During the past year, EMMA has visited schools around Vermont to fuel

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms 

4 ways Vermont educators are sharing their practice

September 13, 2017June 18, 2018 Susan Hennessey 1 Comment #everydaycourage, Crossett Brook Middle School, Learning Lab, Shelburne Community School

The #everydaycourage of being seen Take the iconic back-to-school prompt for students — what I did on my summer vacation — and

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flexible pathways and proficiencies
Action Research Flexible Pathways Proficiency-Based Learning 

Flexible pathways in proficiency-based learning

June 7, 2017April 29, 2022 Life LeGeros 0 Comments Act 77, learning scales, MGC, quizlet, Shelburne Community School

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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Project-Based Learning 

Take project-based learning to the next level

June 3, 2017April 13, 2022 Katy Farber 2 Comments Currier Memorial School, Hazen Union School, Shelburne Community School

3 ways to plan for PBL 2.0 You’ve dipped your toe into project based learning. You’ve planned an entry event, shared

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Project-Based Learning Real World PBL 

4 Project-Based Learning resources for parents

May 1, 2017June 26, 2017 Scott Thompson 0 Comments Shelburne Community School

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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Community-based learning Innovative Edtech Classrooms 

Idle-Free Vermont in Shelburne

October 14, 2016September 18, 2018 Audrey Homan 1 Comment Shelburne Community School

8th grade scientists tackle carbon emissions at a busy traffic circle This past year, Shelburne Community School middle grades students

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms 

Negotiated curriculum at the unit level

June 15, 2016June 15, 2016 Audrey Homan 1 Comment Shelburne Community School

Set boundaries, then let students drive the conversation Negotiated curriculum is the idea that you can assemble a curriculum for

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News 

Will we see you at Dynamic Landscapes 2016?

May 22, 2016 Robin Merritt 0 Comments Brattleboro Area Middle School, Crossett Brook Middle School, Dynamic Landscapes, Mill River Union High School, Shelburne Community School

Check out these dynamic educators Are you heading to sunny Burlington, VT this Monday and Tuesday (no really, it will

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Augmented Reality Edugaming 

Interactive map tools for creating deeper place-based learning

March 31, 2016April 13, 2022 Audrey Homan 3 Comments Edmunds Middle School, Google Maps, Google Sketch-Up, Hazen Union School, I <3 national parks, Mapbox, Shelburne Community School

Revisiting the possibilities of student-created geographies The rate at which technology changes has reached a dizzying speed, with new tools

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News The 21st Century Classroom 

Middle schoolers helping locally and globally

November 25, 2015 Scott Thompson 3 Comments Shelburne Community School
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The Great Shelburne Pencil Drive In which we discover a direct link between Shelburne, Vermont and …Ghana? Last week I

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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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