Innovative Education in VT

Innovative Education in VT


Latest Episodes

#vted Reads: The Last Cuentista
June 08, 2022

Lovely listeners, welcome back. I'm Jeanie Phillips, and on this episode, I get to talk about "The Last Cuentista", a book by Donna Barba Higuera. - It's a fantastic middle grades book that touches on

#VTED Reads: Care Work with Dr. Winnie Looby
April 28, 2022

Welcome, listeners, to another episode of vted Reads: talking about books by, for, and with Vermont educators. In this episode... we own an oversight. On this show, we are dedicated to breaking down

#vted Reads: The Other Talk
March 24, 2022

Jeanie:  In this episode, I sit down with educational phenoms Christie Nold and Jess Lifshitz.  And we’re joined by Brendan Kiely, Author of The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege. - Now,

#vted Reads: Community Schools Blueprint with Kathleen Kesson
February 22, 2022

In this episode, we welcome author, educator, and Vermont transplant Kathleen Kesson who talks about Community Schools Blueprint: Transforming Our School Community Partnership. Kathleen and I talk ab

#vted Reads: Dig
January 27, 2022

Listeners, I’m going to ask you to bear with me on this one. This is one of my favorite episodes we’ve ever recorded because, in it, you’ll hear students at U-32 school in Montpelier, Vermont, get to

#vted Reads: So You Want to Talk About Race
November 03, 2020

In this episode, we get real about what educators can do in their classrooms to make a more equitable playing field, how to walk that fine line between supporting student activism and co-opting it, and how to juggle the competing demands of educational...

vted Reads: The Hate U Give
October 13, 2020

In this episode, we sit down with the executive director of the Vermont Humanities Council, Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup. The Vermont Humanities Council runs Vermont Reads (not to be confused with Vermont *ed* Reads),

#vted Reads with Jo Knowles
September 28, 2020

Yeah. Me too. - Everything is a lot. Everything... keeps getting to be even more of a lot, and somehow we expect to throw a smile on our faces and, whenever someone asks us if we're fine, to pretend we are, instead of saying: - 'I'm sad.

#vted Reads with Elijah Hawkes
September 10, 2020

Listeners, I'm angry. - I'm angry about the failure of our political leadership, the unmitigated disaster of climate change, and the risks we're asking our educators and students to take right now. I'm angry, and I'm hurt, and frustrated,

#vted Reads with Aimee Arandia Østensen
August 26, 2020

Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer