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Stowe Middle School

Stowe student leadership
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Stowe students lead school change

January 2, 2019April 12, 2022 Susan Hennessey 0 Comments Stowe Middle School, Up for Learning

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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Reflection 

The power of documentation in meaningful learning

June 11, 2018April 29, 2022 Susan Hennessey 2 Comments reflection, Stowe Middle School, student reflection

Exercises for an LMS This past spring, a small group of Stowe Middle School students gathered to help their teachers

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Stowe Protean
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A tale of two tech tools

April 23, 2018September 10, 2018 Susan Hennessey 0 Comments Stowe Middle School

Students test drive tools to enhance & amplify project work When Stowe Middle Level educators met to plan for the

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tech tools for PLPs
PLPs 

3 easy tech tools for PLP reflections

November 29, 2017November 22, 2019 Susan Hennessey 4 Comments Adobe Spark, Answer Garden, flipgrid, Stowe Middle School

Answer Garden, Flipgrid and Adobe Spark “What are you grateful for?”  We posed this question to 7th grade Stowe Middle

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Choose Your Own Adventure with Google Earth

October 20, 2017April 14, 2022 Susan Hennessey 0 Comments Google Earth, Schoology, Stowe Middle School

The virtual reality cure for wanderlust Despite this gorgeous fall weather here in central Vermont, I’m suffering from a bad

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Teaming 

Maintaining a teaching team

September 28, 2017April 29, 2022 Susan Hennessey 0 Comments Peoples Academy Middle Level, Randolph Union High School, Stowe Middle School

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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peer PLP collaboration
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Checking in with Stowe & PAML’s peer PLP collaboration

June 29, 2017September 10, 2018 Audrey Homan 0 Comments Peoples Academy Middle Level, Stowe Middle School

When last we left the students of these two plucky Vermont middle schools, they had managed to connect students and

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4 examples of students as partners in school change

June 19, 2017April 29, 2022 Life LeGeros 0 Comments Crossett Brook Middle School, Flood Brook School, Peoples Academy Middle Level, Rumney Memorial School, Stowe Middle School

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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Peer collaboration on PLPs

March 13, 2017April 29, 2022 Susan Hennessey 3 Comments Google Hangout, Peoples Academy Middle Level, personalized learning, personalized learning plan, personalized learning plans, PLP, PLPs, portfolio, portfolios, Stowe Middle 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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proficiency-based learning: setting a goal with a guitar
Goal-setting Proficiency-Based Learning 

3 visualization exercises for proficiency-based learning

October 27, 2016December 7, 2018 Susan Hennessey 1 Comment Harwood Union Middle School, Hazen Union School, Stowe Middle School

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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