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Teachers: Don’t Feel Guilty About What You Can’t Do. The System Needs to Change.

Edsurge

I stepped out of the classroom in 2010 to work on education systems change at the state and national level, learning from creative public educators across the country. Neuroscience shows us that learning is active, social, contextual, even sporadic. Students wanted to come to class, and they were learning deeply.

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Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class

The Hechinger Report

and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour. Renzulli and Reis themselves have noted that teachers don’t always implement SEM in ways that serve the learning needs of their highest-performing students.

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