How to Build An Anti-Racist Bookshelf
Who’s Outside? How to Build An Anti-Racist Bookshelf is an interactive online workshop for educators we offered in January 2021.
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social justice
Lessons learned from a community conversation on race
How do we effectively engage people in our community who aren’t already predisposed to discuss race and the impacts of
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Keep saying their names.
This has been a tough few weeks. Even in relative terms to 2020, it was “a week.” Our sense of
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Students can learn about antiracism.
And they’re willing to tell you how. Children begin internalizing racial bias by the time they are two years old.
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Student intervention for anti-racist education
Schools are committed to bringing anti-racism into curricula and systems more than ever before. Even in predominantly white schools there
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#vted Reads: Hemingway, with Elijah Hawkes
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Listeners: our hearts are breaking. Our hearts are breaking for all of Vermont’s Black students, Black educators, and Black families.
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#vted Reads: Stamped, by Jason Reynolds
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I’m Jeanie Phillips, and this is Vermont Ed Reads: books by, for and with Vermont educators. Today we’re joined by
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Equity, identity & art
Tracing a middle level social identity unit Identity. Oppression. Social justice. Structural racism. Liberation. These are some intense ideas to
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#vted Reads: Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty
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In this episode of #vted Reads, I return to my old stomping grounds at Green Mountain Union High School. I’m
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How to do a library diversity audit
7 tips for educators Create a place where all students lives are seen and valued. Expand the idea of what
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#vted Reads: The 57 Bus with Caitlin Classen
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In this episode of #vted Reads, we talk about the 57 Bus by Dashka Slater. Based on a real-life incident,
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(re)Building community
Breaking bread & stereotypes with formerly incarcerated Vermonters Food and community are inextricably linked. Birthdays, funerals, weddings, holidays: a meal
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This Is Really Scary (And I’ve Never Been More Excited)
When asked “what is your working definition of personalized learning?” Charlie Herzog, an educator at Flood Brook replied: “Relevancy is
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Piecing Me Together, with Jory Hearst
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Also featuring: The Green Mountain Book Awards! Legendary Librarian Jeanie Phillips is back on the podcast talking about what else
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How can students teach educators about social identity?
A trio of Tuttle 6th graders led educators from around Vermont through activities in bias-awareness and social identity at the
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Race Against Racism VT
It all starts with an idea. Races Against Racism have taken place around the country, and last spring, a community
Read moreThe #everydaycourage of talking about race in Vermont schools
How will your students prepare for active engagement in democracy? Last spring Christie Nold, a 6th grade teacher at Frederick
Read moreDiverse books for conversations around identity
The birth of a YA teacher’s book club “Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong.
Read moreHow to fight fake news in the field
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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Eminent education researcher speaks at UVM Visiting New Zealand researcher Emily Nelson PhD spoke this past week to Vermont educators
Read moreGood Stories and Hard Truths: Summer Reading
As I look at what I am reading and want to read this summer, it’s kind of all over the
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On equity in the digital classroom
Read more“See America”: Cabot students share their PBL research
Project-based learning is alive and well in rural Vermont As part of The Cabot School‘s Exhibition of Learning earlier this
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