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2019- Personal Efficacy in the Middle Grades
2018- Middle School Is Not a Building: What Does It Mean Today?
2017- Flexible Pathways for Young Adolescents
2016- Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades II
2015- Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades I
2014- Democracy in Education
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About Us
INSTITUTE 2025
The Model
MGI Staff
Visiting Scholars
Testimonials
Expectations
Competencies
Conferences
2024- Equitable Oriented Middle Grades Education
2023- Equitable Oriented Middle Grades Education
2022-Equitable Learning for Young Adolescents
2021 Advancing Equity for Children and Youth
2020- Advancing Equity in the Middle Grades
2019- Personal Efficacy in the Middle Grades
2018- Middle School Is Not a Building: What Does It Mean Today?
2017- Flexible Pathways for Young Adolescents
2016- Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades II
2015- Personalized Learning in the Middle Grades I
2014- Democracy in Education
Conversations
Middle Grades Review
Middle Grades Endorsement Courses
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Equity Literacy
Kathleen Brinegar on Becoming Resproduction Disruptors
Equity Literacy for All
Equity Literacy Abilities Chart
Equity Literacy & the Middle Grades Competencies Crosswalk
Resources from Rebecca Haslam’s Workshop
An act relating to ethnic and social equity studies standards for public schools
Bias to Equity Literacy
Jeanie's recent podcast on Gorski's book on poverty and class
Avoiding Racial Equity Detours
Trauma-Informed Teaching
Trauma-informed Classrooms: Elementary School
Trauma-informed Classrooms: Middle & High School
Managing Secondary Traumatic Stress
A Trauma Informed Approach to Teaching Through Coronavirus
Teaching for Social Justice
Deepening Social Justice Teaching
Lessons from Teachers
The Silenced Dialogue
Multicultural Literature
Ethnic Studies Resources
Transgender Children and Youth: Understanding the Basics
Gender Diversity Fact Sheet
Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Students
Organizations in Support of Equity & Sustainability
Rethinking Schools
Teaching Tolerance
Equity Literacy Institute
Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition
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Shelburne Farms
Place Based After School Literacy
Vermont Climate Resilient Schools
Annual Snapshot 2019 for MGI
OCSU Social Justice Library
Adolescent Development
Personal Efficacy
Care in the Middle
Healthy Identities
Young Adolescent Identities
Grit, Growth Mindset & SEL
Even Geniuses Work Hard
Teaching a Growth Mindset
Having Grit
Downside of Grit
Incorporating SEL as a New Teacher
Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment
Curriculum Integration and the Disciplines of Knowledge
Meeting Standards through Integrated Curriculum
How do we do curriculum integration?
Lesson Planning for Active Learning
School & Classroom Organization
Middle School in Not a Building
What Makes a Good Middle School?
A Report on Middle Schools
I Feel Like I Am Safe Again
Looping
Transitions
Stations
Partnering
Big Picture School
Three Pillars of Personalized Learning
How Personal Learning is Working in Vermont
Act 77 - Flexible Pathways Initiative
Personalized Learning AOE Module
Moving Toward Personal Learning
Two Approaches to Personalized Learning
Teaching Students to Learn without Us
State Policy Framework for Personalized Learning
Critical Elements of PLPs
What personalized Learning Looks Like
Middle Level Example: Team Summit PLP
Stetter on Personal Learning
Flexible Pathways
AOE Flexible Pathways
Flexible Pathways AOE Module
Expanded Learning Providers
Intervale Center
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
Echo Lake Aquarium and Science Center
Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio
Green Mountain Youth Symphony
Burlington City Arts
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
Shelburne Farms
Audubon Vermont
Minecraft
Proficiency Based Assessment
How Good is Good Enough
Delaying the Grade for Students to Read Feedback
Proficiency-Based Learning Resources
10 Principles of Proficiency Based Learning
MHS Learning Expectation - Example of Transferable Skills
General Rubrics for Fundamental Skills
Standards based Learning - Peaks and Pitfalls
Standards Based Learning Conference
Student Voice & Democratic Education
Putting Democracy at the Center
Negotiated Curriculum
Teaching Democracy
Student Negotiated Curriculum - Sam Nelson Style
Goals Can Empower
Student Voices
Spectrum of Student Voice
Distance Learning
CVSD Planning Guide for Middle Grades
Getting Up and Running - The Basics
Voice-over Explanation of One Team’s Online Resources to Students
Cornell Professors Panel Discussion about How to Team Virtually
Cult of Pedagogy - A Gently Curated List
Main Street Middle School - Team Dynamix 802 Website Explained to Teachers
Staying Busy - Beyond School
How To Run a Virtual Book Club with Middle Schoolers
Journal for New-York Historical Society’s History Responds Program
Home Strategies for Students with Special Needs
5 Ways to Help Teens Manage Anxiety About the Coronavirus
A Collaborative Community Guide to Covid-19 Resources
(Compiled by Vermonters)
Project-based/Service Learning
Project Based and Service Learning
PBL - Extreme Weather
Building Service and Project Based Learning Climate
Structures for project based learning
Teachers talking about project based learning
Work that Matter: Teacher’s Guide to PBL
Place-Based Education
Preparing Teachers for Place-based Teaching
Reading the World, Not Just the Words
The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place
Place-Based Education in Southeast Michigan
A Watershed for Every Classroom
NHIS ?A?ali?i Program 2017
MakerSpace Learning
Thinking about thinking - Design Models
Youth Makerspace Playbook
Dive into the Maker Movement
Supporting the Teacher Maker Movement
Using Design Thinking to Make Something for Others
Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms
MakerSpace Resources
Making and Transferable Skills
Power Wheels
The Myth of the Neutral Makerspace
Drexel Study - k12 makerspace lack of inclusive culture
How To Build and Inclusive Makerspace
An Ethnography of Maker and Hacker Spaces Achieving Diverse Participation
Liberatory Methodologies: Participatory Action Research Strategies for Discovering Inclusive Makerspace Practices
A Brief History of Educational Reform
Report of the Committee of Ten
Ten Years' Influence of the Committee of Ten Report
Flexner Report
Brown vs. Board of Education
A Nation At Risk
Linking Classroom and School Improvement
What is the System in Systemic Reform?
The History of Personalization in Vermont
Vermont Design For Education
Growing Toward System Change: PLPs At Montpelier High School
High Schools on The Move
Introduction to the EQS
Intro to Act 77
Content Standards & Transferable Skills
Common Core State Standards
Next Generation Science Standards
College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards
World-Readiness Standards
WIDA Standards for Language Proficiency
National Art Standards
ISTE Technology Standards for Educators
Digital Citizenship
MGI Digital Citizenship Module
Effects of Technology on Young Adolescents
Digital Citizenship - Six Resources
Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship Curriculum
Google Safety Center
ISTE Essential Conditions for Learning
iKeepSafe
Ten Tips for Using Social Media with Students
Educational Digital Tools
Is your child a phone addict?
Smart Phone Detox
New and Digital Literacies
The Disruption of Blended Learning
Read Smarter, Not Harder
How to Get Your Mind to Read
Close Reading Strategies
Being a Better Online Reader
Games in the Humanities Classroom
SketchNoting
Disciplinary Literacy
What is Literacy?
A Functional Language Approach to Informational Reports, Explanations & Arguments
A Functional Language Approach to Recounts, Instructions & Narratives
As Soon as She Opened Her Mouth
Disciplinary Resources from a Functional Language Perspective
Organizations in Support of Middle Grades
Middle Grades Collaborative
Tarrant Institute
PLP Pathways
Association of Middle Grades Educators
VT Association of Middle Grades Educators
Up For Learning
Vermont Learning For The Future
Students At the Center
Great Schools Partnership
Middle Grades Journals and Magazines
Middle Grades Review
Middle School Journal
Middle Grades Research Journal
RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education
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