Stowe students lead school change
How student-adult partnerships can scaffold student leadership “Did you know that the same areas in the brain light up when
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Stowe Middle School
The power of documentation in meaningful learning
Exercises for an LMS This past spring, a small group of Stowe Middle School students gathered to help their teachers
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A tale of two tech tools
Students test drive tools to enhance & amplify project work When Stowe Middle Level educators met to plan for the
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3 easy tech tools for PLP reflections
Answer Garden, Flipgrid and Adobe Spark “What are you grateful for?” We posed this question to 7th grade Stowe Middle
Read moreChoose Your Own Adventure with Google Earth
The virtual reality cure for wanderlust Despite this gorgeous fall weather here in central Vermont, I’m suffering from a bad
Read moreMaintaining a teaching team
5 exercises your team can try today School is off to a rollicking start thanks to you and your team’s
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Checking in with Stowe & PAML’s peer PLP collaboration
When last we left the students of these two plucky Vermont middle schools, they had managed to connect students and
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Let students help you transform your school Creating sustainable systemic change is hard work. Yet there are readily available, free, renewable
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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
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3 visualization exercises for proficiency-based learning
Outcomes, process and automaticity I worked with a group of teachers this summer to re-think goal-setting with their students. We
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