<\/path><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\nFor her Passion Project, Julia transformed a photo of herself at a gymnastics competition and reproduced it using buttons. She took Tuttle’s button mural, depicting their new mascot, as inspiration. In addition, her parents had worked on a portrait of Julia using spray-painted pennies. This too served as inspiration.<\/p>\n
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Once she’d completed her personal button mural, she discovered that she had much more to talk about at her student-led conference with her family.<\/p>\n
As Julia herself puts it,<\/p>\n
“When you enjoy doing something, you want to talk about it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Several teams at Tuttle Middle School are taking a project-based approach to Personal Learning Plans<\/a> to “hook” students into the goal-setting, planning, and reflection cycle. Check out Julia’s\u00a0project reflection sheet<\/a>, below. There you can see how she documented her journey.<\/p>\n![\"Julia's](\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/planning_document.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h2>\nHow can you help students enjoy PLPs and student-led conferences?<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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