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Authentic Education Team

In my last two posts, I explored examples of Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions (EUs and […]
Before I started planning math units using the Understanding by Design framework, I frequently found myself […]
In my 100th blog post I complained about the course called ‘algebra’. Some commenters misunderstood the complaint. Though […]
An idea is “big” if it helps us make sense of lots of confusing experiences & seemingly isolated facts. A big idea is a way of seeing better & working smarter.