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      • 2.1 Knowing Students Well
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    • Ch 4: Starting with the Learner Profile
    • Ch 5: Flexing Your Pathways
      • 5.1 Engaging Pedagogies for All
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student voice

Voices Heard: learning from our students
Learning Lab VT 

Voices Heard: learning from our students

May 28, 2021June 2, 2021 Susan Hennessey 0 Comments student voice

 In the past few months, we’ve been meeting with groups of students from six Vermont schools, asking them about their

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UP for Learning
Remote Learning 

UP for (Changes to) Learning

May 27, 2021May 27, 2021 Lindsey Halman 2 Comments #COVID19, student voice, Up for Learning

When schools closed to in-person learning in March of 2020, UP for Learning’s Youth Advisory Council (YAC) continued to meet

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Stories from VT Students 

What Orleans students want you to know about student voice

October 21, 2019February 25, 2020 Audrey Homan 1 Comment community, Orleans Elementary School, student voice
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  On this episode of The 21st Century Classroom: It makes me happy to come to school every day, because

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ThisIsVTED 

How to do a library diversity audit

May 27, 2019June 4, 2019 Audrey Homan 1 Comment equity, librarians, Ottauquechee School, social justice, student voice

7 tips for educators Create a place where all students lives are seen and valued. Expand the idea of what

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student engagement in PLPs at Williston Central
Action Research Reflection 

Increasing student engagement in PLPs at Williston Central

April 1, 2019April 29, 2022 Audrey Homan 0 Comments goal-setting, Google Forms, MGC, proficiency-based learning, Protean, sketchnoting, student surveys, student voice, transferable skills, ubiquitous learning, Williston Central School

It’s about providing choice in reflection tools Personalized Learning Plans (PLPs) across the state have taken many different forms and

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students from Crossett Brook Middle School
The 21st Century Classroom 

What students want you to know about school

January 21, 2019December 12, 2019 Life LeGeros 0 Comments Crossett Brook Middle School, student voice
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The art of listening We are big believers in including student voice in our storytelling. Usually we ask students to

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Photo of teacher and students smiling.
Action Research 

Voice + choice = a better math classroom

November 26, 2018November 26, 2018 Life LeGeros 0 Comments math, student voice, Warren Elementary School

Start by listening to students Elizabeth Tarno asked her students for feedback about their math class at the end of

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Uncategorized 

Climate, Community and Voice from Day 1

August 24, 2016April 19, 2018 John Downes 0 Comments #readytolaunch, student voice

 Starting up with our students Another exciting year is upon us. It may be difficult to wrest our attention from these glorious

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scaffolding year-end reflections
Flexible Pathways The 21st Century Classroom 

Mathew’s Y.E.A.R. at The Compass School

May 30, 2016February 26, 2019 Audrey Homan 0 Comments reflection, student reflection, student voice, The Compass School
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Scaffolding year-end reflections At The Compass School in Westminster, Vermont, students advance through grades by producing evidence of their accomplishments

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Uncategorized 

V is for Voice Recordings

October 12, 2015April 22, 2022 Audrey Homan 5 Comments #ABCsofedtech, Adobe Voice, AudioBoo, podcasting, student voice, Vocaroo

Why voice recordings work for young adolescents As students use technology to explore and capture projects that show both their emerging proficiency

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News 

Student voice as a social justice issue

October 4, 2015 Audrey Homan 3 Comments social justice, student voice

Eminent education researcher speaks at UVM Visiting New Zealand researcher Emily Nelson PhD spoke this past week to Vermont educators

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms 

Multiple platforms, multiple voices: scenes from a 1:1 rollout

September 3, 2015September 3, 2015 Susan Hennessey 7 Comments 1:1, Blogger, family communication, Hazen Union School, student voice

Collaborative blogging puts students’ voices out front Hazen Union School 8th grade student Elijah Lew-Smith shared the first student post of the

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Project-Based Learning 

Project-based learning at Essex Middle School: algebra and songwriting

January 30, 2015April 29, 2022 Audrey Homan 4 Comments algebra, community schooling, math, music, PBL, student voice, The Edge @ Essex Middle School, Vermont
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Making math and music at The Edge We were lucky enough to get to sit down with three groups of

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Hour of Code at Essex Middle School

December 17, 2014 Audrey Homan 2 Comments coding, student voice

Students report enjoyment and challenges learning programming A huge congratulations to everyone — students, teachers and families — who participated

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Uncategorized 

The Problem with Genius Hour

November 15, 2014April 15, 2022 Penny Bishop 20 Comments middle school, student engagement, student voice, student-centered learning

Shouldn’t every hour be a genius hour? Anyone paying attention to education in the US lately has seen the proliferation

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News 

Why is everyone doin’ it for the Vine?

January 20, 2014 Audrey Homan 1 Comment digital storytelling, student voice

Vine is a tool where users can craft looping six-second videos for sharing globally, and other users can up-vote them,

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Uncategorized 

How one teacher learned to let go and trust her students to lead their learning

August 13, 2013February 28, 2016 Audrey Homan 0 Comments student voice

While we’re all over here recovering from the epic spectacle that was this year’s Code Camp, please enjoy Shelly Wright’s

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Uncategorized 

“When Student Published Videos Go Viral” (podcast)

July 23, 2013 Audrey Homan 0 Comments digital citizenship, Internet safety, reflection, student voice, YouTube

In September of 2009, Sarah, the 9 year-old daughter of our keynote speaker posted a 90-second YouTube response to President

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News Videos 

Student documentary: “The Merge: School Consolidation”

July 11, 2013 Audrey Homan 0 Comments community engagement, digital storytelling, student voice, U32

Montpelier’s U32 students did an amazing job crafting this documentary about school consolidation issues in Vermont. A fantastic example of

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Tools We Like Videos 

How to: use iMovie on the iPad

June 20, 2013 Audrey Homan 0 Comments Harwood Union Middle School, iMovie, student voice

A brief but effective demonstration of how to use iMovie to construct a poem recital video, courtesy a student at

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms 

In the spotlight: Harwood Union Middle School

June 17, 2013 Audrey Homan 0 Comments Harwood Union Middle School, student voice

Traveled down to Harwood Union Middle School in Moretown VT on Friday to interview some of the students and teachers

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Innovative Edtech Classrooms News 

Edge Innovation Tour

June 10, 2013January 22, 2015 Audrey Homan 0 Comments reflection, student voice, The Edge @ Essex Middle School

“It’s not that I feel smarter in learning, I feel smarter in everything.” Essex Middle School’s Edge team opened their

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Videos 

Edmodo at Warp Speed

February 24, 2013 Audrey Homan dcf awards, edmodo, student voice

Working through the Dorothy Canfield Fisher books with Edmodo: Warp Speed by Lisa Yee, Inside Out and Back Again by

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