Personalized Learning & Educational Equity in Vermont Schools
How Equity is Actualized: Visions, Practices, and Realities at Vermont Schools is a year-long ethnographic study of the composite trends and obstacles that impact the viability of Act 77. This project collaborates with Vermont educators and students to learn how personalized learning can be used as a tool for creating equity in our schools.
Listening in Place
Listening in Place is Vermont Folklife’s way of engaging with people during to the Covid-19 Pandemic.
It focuses on four responses to the COVID-19 emergency: the creation of a crowd-sourced Sound Archive to document our daily experiences during the pandemic, a series of online Virtual Story Circles, where Vermonters can gather remotely to listen and share during these challenging times, Virtual Vox Pops, short interviews recorded over the phone with VFC staff, and Show Us Your Masks! a project to document homemade face masks created by Vermonters.
Vermont Town Schools Project
The Vermont Town Schools Project is an effort to create a community-led oral history collection that explores the relationship between small towns and their schools. Based on conversations with community leaders, the Town Schools Project is emerging in the context of recent policy reforms that impact the future of town schools.
Pride '83 Project
Working in partnership with Meg Tamulonis of the Vermont Queer Archives we are interviewing organizers of Vermont’s first gay pride parade in 1983.
Cartooning and Place
Andy has been interviewing a number of Vermont cartoonists to explore how being from - and living in - Vermont informs their work.
The Grass-Roots Food Movement in Vermont
The Vermont Folklife Center has undertaken an ethnographic research project exploring the occupational cultures and practices of these emergent, locally focused, “grass-roots” agricultural enterprises. Photo / Eric Seitz, Pitchfork Farm, Burlington, VT.
Vermont School Transformation
Exploring transformative classrooms practices, youth and adult partnerships, and school-wide initiatives that are evolving the public school experience for students across Vermont.
Colonial Dames
In 2015, Vermont Folklife Center researchers partnered with the The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America Vermont Chapter to develop and oral history and photographic portrait project exploring the lives, passions, and character of the groups membership.