BFA Celebrates New Student Athletic Leadership

Target 2. Leadership in a Student Centered Learning Environment: FWSU will foster development of teacher & student leaders who provide innovative opportunities for local and global student-centered learning. Action Step: Provide multiple avenues for students and staff to lead, advocate, and serve within the school and community. Indicator of Success: Student voice will have the … Continue reading BFA Celebrates New Student Athletic Leadership

BFA Student Makes Connections with Alumnus in Hawaii

Target 4 – Engaged Community Partners. FWSU staff and students will collaborate, innovate, create and conceptualize ideas and learning with local, regional, state, and global partners to make a difference in their community, state, and world. Action Step: Develop partnerships with global partners to carry out a project related to units of study. Indicator of Success: Learning … Continue reading BFA Student Makes Connections with Alumnus in Hawaii

BFA Elementary and Middle School Students Collaborate to Learn Digital Citizenship

Target 4 – Engaged Community Partners. FWSU staff and students will collaborate, innovate, create and conceptualize ideas and learning with local, regional, state, and global partners to make a difference in their community, state, and world. Action Step –  Plan and manage instruction around problems relevant to students and their community and develop solutions for authentic audiences. … Continue reading BFA Elementary and Middle School Students Collaborate to Learn Digital Citizenship

How Many Birds Can You Feed With One Seed?

Target 2 – Leadership in a Student Centered Learning Environment FWSU will foster development of teacher & student leaders who provide innovative opportunities for local and global student-centered learning. Action Step - Ensure students and staff take an active role shaping their learning using rich, authentic questions, problems they identify, and diverse resources. Indicator of Success -Teachers embrace role of … Continue reading How Many Birds Can You Feed With One Seed?

GEMS Elementary Teachers Collaborate and Plan Student Transitions

Target 2 – Leadership in a Student Centered Learning Environment FWSU will foster development of teacher & student leaders who provide innovative opportunities for local and global student-centered learning. Action Step - Redefine high performance in a student-centered, collaborative, technologically rich learning environment. At his time of year one of the most important topics being discussed, both at school and at … Continue reading GEMS Elementary Teachers Collaborate and Plan Student Transitions

GEMS Students Connect with Classrooms in South Korea

 Target 1 – Student-Centered Learning FWSU students will engage in personalized learning involving collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creative learning opportunities. Action Step -  Increase easily accessible opportunities for global collaboration for teachers and students Last night at GEMS students from three fourth grade classrooms culminated a three-month international virtual exchange with three classrooms in South Korea.  The program was … Continue reading GEMS Students Connect with Classrooms in South Korea

BFA Science Teacher Tom Lane Returns from the Tundra

Target 2. Leadership in a Student-Centered Learning Environment - FWSU will foster development of teacher & student leaders who provide innovative opportunities for local and global student-centered learning. Action Step - Ensure students and staff take an active role shaping their learning using rich, authentic questions, problems they identify, & diverse resources. High School Science Teacher Tom … Continue reading BFA Science Teacher Tom Lane Returns from the Tundra

BFA and FWSU Educators Present at Dynamic Landscapes Conference

Target 2 – Leadership in a Student Centered Learning Environment FWSU will foster development of teacher & student leaders who provide innovative opportunities for local and global student-centered learning. Action Step - Provide multiple avenues for students and staff to lead, advocate, and serve within the school and community Each spring teachers, librarians, technology integrationists and administrators gather for a learning event sponsored by the Vermont School Librarians Association and … Continue reading BFA and FWSU Educators Present at Dynamic Landscapes Conference