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Open Classroom Plans: The Effects on Reading
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In schools, optimism helps teachers a lot. At the beginning of the year, my students…
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In the last few years, I’ve increasingly wondered if “schema theory” just might work a…
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You will often hear about an exciting strategy to help students learn: they should teach one another….
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