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Ambitious instruction, planning forrigor in the secondary classroom, Brad Cawn

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Ambitious instruction

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Brad Cawn

planning forrigor in the secondary classroom

Ensure all learners have opportunities to engage deeply in meaningful intellectual work. In Ambitious Instruction, author Brad Cawn offers a blueprint for how to make rigor visible, accessible, and actionable in grade 6-12 classrooms. The resource guides readers toward using the twin tenets of problem-based learning and synthesis to significantly strengthen students' ability to read, write, and think within and across disciplines. Use this resource to reinvigorate and modernize daily learning and instruction: - Develop a working understanding of rigor that will serve as the basis for rigorous, instructional excellence. - Discover how to integrate inquiry and dialogue into your instruction to help learners engage in meaningful exploration of complex problems. - Become familiar with actionable strategies that can be utilized to develop and increase rigor in the classroom. - Learn how to create and organize tasks, texts, and processes in order to improve teaching and learning. Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Author Introduction: Redefining Rigor Chapter 1: Determining What Rigor Will Look Like Chapter 2: Exploring the Two Tenets of Ambitious Instruction Chapter 3: Creating an Ambitious Instruction Road Map Chapter 4: Building Structured Inquiry to Power Ambitious Instruction Chapter 5: Facilitating Ambitious Instruction Through Dialogue Chapter 6: Launching and Sustaining Ambitious Instruction References and Resources

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