Celebrating Cultivating Pathways to Sustainability

From a gravel wetland to a peace mural, hear students describe projects they undertook this year as part of Cultivating Pathways to Sustainability, offered in partnership with Shelburne Farms. (And, […]
UP Teams Leading Family and Community Events

Throughout the year, UP supports our youth-adult teams in bringing together students, families, educators, and community members in a variety of ways. This engagement can look and feel very different […]
Get a Sense of the Power² Summit

The Power² Summit made its long-awaited return on Tuesday, May 5th with 175 youth and adult attendees participating from UP teams across Vermont. This year’s Power² Summit, the first in […]
Power² Summit – A Day in Review

The Power² Summit made its long-awaited return on Tuesday, May 5th with 175 youth and adult attendees participating from UP teams across Vermont. This year’s Power² Summit, the first in […]
Time For Teachership Podcast Features UP

In this episode, we dive into a discussion about youth-adult partnerships with guests Lindsey Halman, Jacoby Soter, and Ana Lindert-Boyes from UP for Learning, an organization committed to reimagining and transforming education through […]
UP Youth-Adult Teams Lead Meaningful Staff Professional Learning

UP for Learning teams are transforming professional learning by placing youth-adult partnership at the center of school growth and change. While many teams facilitate faculty engagement and community conversations as […]
UP at the Massachusetts VOICE Summit

Hundreds of youth and adults joined together with state policymakers at the Massachusetts VOICE Summit put on by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) on April 16th to […]
Missisquoi Valley Union Youth Council UPdate

The Missisquoi Valley Union High School Youth Council in Swanton, VT, has been hard at work this school year, and their growth through their partnership with UP for Learning has […]
Implementing the Portrait of a Graduate in Lamoille South

During the 2025-2026 school year, The Peoples Academy Youth-Adult Partnership team (YAP) set out to build a schoolwide understanding of the purpose behind the Portrait of a Graduate (PoG), and […]
Work in Lamoille North Continues to Inspire

Since 2022, the LNSU Equity Design Team at Lamoille MS and HS has worked to bring together youth and adults to explore and address educational inequities that impact students’ experiences […]