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Project Based Learning and the Three Pillars

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Project Based Learning and the Three Pillars of Personalized Learning This blog post is from from Kevin Hunt, a contributor to PLP Pathways and teacher in the Swift House, Williston Central School. We’re…

Power, Purpose, and Partnership @ the 2017 P2 Summit

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This post was written by Tevye Kelman of UP for Learning and originally appeared on the Center for Collaborative Education blog. Posted with permission.In a recent post on the Center for Collaborative…

Building Youth-Adult Partnerships Through Feedback

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Written by Tevye Kelman of Randolph Union High School, this post originally appeared in UP for Learning’s Winter Newsletter and is being reposted here with permission. You can learn more about Unleashing…

Teaching Through A Lens of Personalization

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Today's post is by Don Taylor of Main Street Middle School in Montpelier. For many teachers, the move to proficiency-based assessment and personalized learning, as mandated by Act 77, has been cause…

PLP Pathways: Practitioner Perspective

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Today's post was contributed by Don Taylor, language arts and social studies teacher at Main Street Middle School. Follow PLP Pathways on Twitter @PLPpathways.Practitioner PerspectiveAct 77: Flexible Pathways…

Personalization, proficiencies, flexible pathways - the Three Pillars!

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This week we will be featuring a post authored by Lindsey Halman, a PLP Pathways contributing author, participating PLP Pathways webinar moderator, teacher, and founder of The Edge Academy, Essex Middle…

Getting the Ball Rolling with Personalization and Proficiencies

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This week we will be featuring a post authored by Kevin Hunt, a PLP Pathways contributing author, participating PLP Pathways webinar moderator, and teacher in the Swift House, Williston Central School.The…

Building a Learning Community

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Over the next few weeks, we'll be featuring teachers throughout Vermont as they implement personal learning in their classrooms. Today's post is by Don Taylor of Main Street Middle School in Montpelier.Across…

Sterling House Implements PLPs

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This blog was co-authored by Joy Peterson and Jared Bailey. Joy and Jared are teammates on Sterling House at Williston Central School. Joy is the ELA teacher and Jared is the math teacher.Act 77 requires…

PLP Pathways Year in Review

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The PLP Pathways project was started as an effort to support the work being done on elements of Act 77 by teachers around the state of Vermont. With support from the Middle Grades Collaborative and the…

Core Values and the Personal Learning Framework

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When looking at the Personal Learning Framework one of the key components to the Identity section is having students think about who they are and their core values. Ultimately, this can be a foundation…

Identity, PLPs, and the Learning Community

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Personal learning plans can be an ideal platform for starting off the new year and getting to know the new students who have entered your learning community. This year, after a brief primer on digital…