Category: Reflections and Commentary
What we Learned from our Focus Group Discussions
This year, UVEI’s institutional learning focus has been to explore the challenges involved with recruiting, developing, and sustaining educators, and...
READ MOREHow One Rural School is Confronting Today’s Workforce Challenges
Why would a teacher who left Vermont to teach in other states decide to return - and come back to...
READ MOREWorking with Multilingual Learners
Image: “A Daughter Migrates Toward the Mother Earth” (2017), Philadelphia, created by Jess X Snow Looking around our two...
READ MOREA Conversation With UVEI Literacy Educators
Monica Nachemja-Bunton, faculty member, and Kristen Liu, coordinator of the Literacy Program, “sat down” over Zoom with Emily Lloyd and...
READ MOREDeeper Learning is a Community Experience at Leland & Gray
Stuff is happening at Leland and Gray Middle and High School in Townshend, VT, and people are noticing. Just ask...
READ MOREUVEI’s learning focus for 2022-2023: Recruiting, developing, and sustaining educators.
Over the last two years, we have heard a clear message from our network of alumni, partner schools, and educators:...
READ MORECool Things in Upper Valley Schools, November 2022
The original version of this piece was published as a column in Valley Parents, a special section of the Valley...
READ MOREFaculty & Staff Summer Reading List
Summer months are for reading. It’s not that educators don’t read during the rest of the school year. They read...
READ MORELiteracy Program Candidates Reflect on Their Learning
I am wrapping up my first year as the coordinator of the Literacy Educators Program at UVEI. Throughout this year,...
READ MOREStrong Schools in Polarized Times
Three Recommendations for Schools in Our Region What will our communities be like in November of 2024, at the...
READ MOREWhat UVEI Has Taught Me: Relationships are Key
A Teaching Candidate Reflects on Her Learning My route to the Upper Valley Educators Institute has been facilitated by the...
READ MOREAdmissions Season
Winter and spring make up our busiest admissions season at UVEI, and during this time I get a glimpse into...
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