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11 Lessons for Re-Imagining the Schooling Experience with Steve Shapiro

The Student-Centered Shift: Empowered International Schools and Classrooms Through Project-Based Learning

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The Importance of Setting Standards for Learning

The more we push grades, the more kids will focus on grades rather than learning. I think Aaron Sharp was on your podcast and did a great conversation about this. Once grades become students, primary motivator, learning becomes secondary. If you walk through their halls, what's the percentage of talk that kids are doing about their tests, their grades, their quizzes, their homework? What's the percent they're talking about actual stuff they're learning in school? That balance will tell you something about what kids are focused on.

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