Welcome to our collaborative curation of resources from the 2020 Winter Summit. Please dig in, share, link, and add to this online resource!
From the Opening:
Breakout Sessions:
“Yellow Card” - Girls Impact the World
When Learning Leads to Action - #EqualPay
From the Agenda: Youth from Burlington High School’s girls soccer team and partners at Change The Story will share their path, learning, and engage participants with questions they are asking about the future of the movement.
From the Session: What would you “take a Yellow Card” for? What would you stand up for (or against) and accept the consequences with conviction and joy? Post your yellow card on social media: #ExcessiveCelebration (instagram) #ExcessiveCelebration (twitter) and strengthen the movement!
Resources: Women, Work and Wages in Vermont report, EqualPay Jerseys (proceeds support the youth-managed #EqualPay fund held with the Vermont Community Foundation)
Translating Expanded Learning - From Experience to Proficiencies
From the Agenda: Explore and give feedback on a prototype tool developed by the Agency of Education to validate expanded learning experiences by “translating” them into Education Quality Standards.
From the Session: Expanded Learning Experience Proficiency Translation Tool presentation and Collaborative Notes from the Session.
Resources: Vermont Learning Cooperative: a Shared Resources Site that grew out of past sharing and collaboration from the Digital Lever Group (see afternoon Action Planning Sessions), Micro-credentialing & digital badging resource created by Don Taylor & Kevin Hunt.
The Future Has A Voice - The Youth Lobby
From the Agenda: Students leading this statewide action network will share their process and goals, then engage participants with questions about school and community roles, student activism, and climate education standards.
From the Session: What should climate education look like, in order to shift public understanding and action towards solutions to the climate crisis? Collaborative Notes from the Session.
Resources: Youth Lobby page (information, updates and resources)
Innovations and Connections in Place-Based Education in Vermont
From the Agenda: A panel of youth and adult representatives from place-based programs, along with breakout participants, will explore evolutions in PBE, networked support systems for innovation and positive impacts on learners and communities.
From the Session: (Notes and other resources coming soon!)
Resources: Our Curriculum Matters, Sustainable Schools Project, UVM’s Place Program
Courageous Engagement with Equity Literacy
From the Agenda: Participants in the Vermont Principals’ Association Equity Practitioners Network will share their process, learning, and lead dialog around questions they are investigating in Small Experiments with Radical Intent.
From the Session: Consultancy Protocol and Strategy for Framing Questions for Equity-Based Dilemmas, Small Experiment with Radical Intent protocol
Resources: Equity Literacy Framework, 8 Principals of Equity Literacy,
How Do We Responsibly Engage in Anti-Colonial Work in Education?
From the Agenda: An interactive introduction to the complexities of colonization and decolonization, and what it might mean to take an anti-colonial approach to educational systems change.
From the Session: Quotes and Perspectives on Decolonization, Work of Decolonization in Education Diagram, Collaborative Notes from the Session
Resources: Decolonizing Education - Implications for Systems Transformation in Vermont, by Kathleen Kesson
Centering Youth Voice through Holistic Restorative Approaches and Teacher Education
From the Agenda: Join in both planning for and discussing the implications of a youth-adult summit to inform a restorative approach to teaching and learning.
From the Session: Issaquah protocol (School Reform Initiative) used in facilitating dialog.
Resources: True Nature Teaching (Annie O’Shaughnesy) and Resources