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Powerful Understanding explores effective ways to build social-emotional skills and help students make connections, question what they read and transform their thinking as they develop into stronger readers and learners. It offers insightful lessons that integrate strategic and critical thinking to deepen student understanding, and introduces a model to use for exploring, interacting with and reflecting on everything you teach. Hands-on activities and student samples illustrate this unique and comprehensive approach to inquiry-based learning. Ideal for new and experienced teachers, this remarkable book features the tools teachers need to help students think more deeply, learn more widely and develop a more powerful understanding of what it means to be responsible and compassionate.

Designed as a guide to school reform, this resource outlines a series of ten small-scale changes powerful enough to make a lasting impact. Promote F-12 student growth through research-based instructional strategies, performance-based assessments and social-emotional learning (SEL).