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Building Understanding through Writing and Talk
Dr. Milton Chen is senior fellow and executive director emeritus at The George Lucas Educational Foundation.
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Rosa E. (Rosita) Apodaca discusses why English learners must go beyond fluency in everyday English and how teachers can help students become fluent listeners and speakers of academic English.
Idorenyin (Ido) Jamar discusses why it is important to let students work on a mathematics task without first showing them how to solve it.
Margaret (Peg) Smith discusses the importance of high-level tasks in developing students capacity to think, reason, and problem solve and the ways in which high-level tasks can provide all students with access to challenging mathematical content.
Sam Spiegel discusses why student talk is important in the science classroom.
Stephanie M. McConachie discusses why all students need to read to get the gist as part of the Institute for Learning's Patterned Way of Reading, Writing, and Talking.
Lauren B. Resnick discusses how Accountable Talk® promotes learning.
William F. Tate IV addresses high quality mathematics and science education for all students.
Claude Goldenberg discusses why all students need to read to get the gist as part of the Institute for Learning's Patterned Way of Reading, Writing, and Talking.