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Authentic Education Team

One of my favorite stories concerns the legendary basketball coach John Wooden. He always gave himself […]
There was one clear Enduring Understanding from our experience: Intellectual understanding is impossible without openness to cultural & social understanding.
Cheating or not? As the school year ends and many of you have student papers due, […]
I have been thinking a lot lately about the challenge we face as educators when well-intentioned […]
“I didn’t know they could think!” an excited high school principal blurted out. The principal was […]
What is close reading? As I said in my previous blog post, whatever it is, it […]
Readers of the blog no doubt know that the title of this post refers to the […]
The title of this post refers to the title of an article I wrote twenty years […]
Tis the season to bash the Common Core – to the point of some over the […]
“You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the […]