UP for Learning on Shift Your Paradigm
Episode 030 – UP for Learning Interview with Helen Beattie and Clara Lew Smith
Executive Director Helen Beattie highlighted in Student at the Center
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GTY and YPAR for Jan 2019
Reading the Department of Health brief on Adolescents Who Feel They Matter recently led me to reflect on how grateful I am to have been involved in Getting to (GTY) […]
Looking Back Looking Forward
This new year provides and opportunity to both look back at our last decade of growth and look forward to the next 10 years. Like many nonprofits, we have been […]
Four Feet on the Ground: The Youth-Adult Partnership Teeter-totter Effect
The personalization of learning requires the relationship of students and teachers to shift to partnership and shared responsibility. Educational change in Vermont has also opened the door to unprecedented opportunities […]
Four Feet on the Ground: The Youth-Adult Partnership Teeter-totter Effect part 2
How can I expedite my school’s shift to youth-adult partnership? UP has been working for years to help youth-adult teams hone their partnerships. We recognize the teeter-totter effect, where one […]
A Fresh Look at Claiming an Education‚
The latest raging debates about women’s place in our society feel disorienting and dangerous to a lot of people. To some of us who came of age a half-century ago, […]
Not Teaching Alone
by Alexandra Muck, Middlebury College This summer, I attended the multi-day International Seminar on Amplifying Student Voice & Partnership, (find the blog at https://blog.uvm.edu/stuvoice) which received major support from the […]
Our Time‚ Revisited
I just can’t get it out of my head It’s our time, our place, our pace. Choice and voice, we co-create. Almost two years ago a group of young people […]
Blow Your Mind With M3
What‚ the point in learning about mindset and metacognition? Why spend time on this? The point is for you as a learner to understand how learning works. Specifically, how your […]
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