Last week, the Vermont Standards Board for Professional Educators unanimously voted to propose scrapping Individual Professional Learning Plans and portfolios from Vermont’s cumbersome teacher relicensing process. Now the real work begins to make that recommendation a reality. Since such a change requires a months-long rulemaking process, teachers currently up for relicensing should continue to follow the rules as they exist today. Rest assured, your union is working diligently to speed

Standards Board Scraps IPLP, Portfolio Requirements Moments ago, the Vermont Standards Board for Professional Educators voted to scrap portfolios and Individual Professional Learning Plans from the teacher relicensing process. The unanimous decision is a huge victory for common sense, and capped a remarkable day in which standards board members realized that Vermont’s current system wasn’t serving teachers or education well. It also is a testament to the outpouring of emails you sent