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Negotiated Curriculum: The Questions Come from the Kids

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This week's contributor is Lindsey Halman. She has taught middle school in Vermont for the past fourteen years and is currently teaching at Essex Middle School where she is a co-founder of The Edge Academy…

Swift House: PLP History Part 3

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This week we will be featuring the final installment in a series of blog posts from Kevin Hunt, a contributor to PLP Pathways and teacher in the Swift House, Williston Central School. PLP Pathways encourages…

Swift House PLP History: Part 2

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This week we will be featuring the second in a series of blog posts from Kevin Hunt, a contributor to PLP Pathways and teacher in the Swift House, Williston Central School. PLP Pathways encourages contributions…

Swift House: A History of Personalized Learning

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This week we will be featuring the first in a series of blog posts from Kevin Hunt, a contributor to PLP Pathways and teacher in the Swift House, Williston Central School. PLP Pathways encourages contributions…

Hazen Union: Linking PLPs, Identity, and the Community

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Our incredible team of Hazen Union 7th and 8th grade teachers have been working collaboratively and intentionally over the past year to create opportunities for all students to feel empowered in addressing…

Using Labels In Blogger To Support Evidence and Reflection

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Returning to school after the winter break, I always feel that I need to refocus my students on their evidence and goal reflections.. At this point in the year they have been working on their goals for…

Benefits of Continuous Professional Development

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This weekend educators from across the state gathered at UVM's Davis Center to discuss their work implementing personalized learning and elements of Act 77 at the Middle Grades Collaborative's Personalized…

Collaboration on Goals

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This week, we've been collaborating on two fronts with regards to setting goals and how teachers can best implement the goal-setting process. Life Legeros of the Tarrant Institute has been working with…

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…

Using Data to Inform the PLP Process

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With the ubiquity of easy-to-use data collection tools available online, educators implementing personal learning plan programs this fall may want to consider systematizing their data collection efforts.…

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…

Collaboration into Practice: Using Technology to Improve Student Outcomes

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Last year, as part of a personal learning pilot program, we started hosting a webinar called