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We are looking forward to helping you make your classroom project a crowd-funding success. The purpose of this page is to guide you through the following stages of your project application: Posting and ValidationDonationsSuccess – Fulfillment and Reporting We have additional information available to help you with writing an engaging project proposal and engaging donors. Braingenie. Four Directions Teachings.com - Aboriginal Online Teachings and Resource Centre - © 2006 - 2012 All Rights Reserved 4D Interactive Inc., a subsidiary of Invert Media Inc. Teachers' Domain. EngageNY. ‎insidemathematics.org/common-core-math-tasks/4th-grade/4-2003%20Buttons.pdf. Public Lessons: Proportions & Ratios. Public Lessons: Numerical Patterning. This lesson is a re-engagement lesson designed for learners to revisit a problem-solving task they have already experienced.

Public Lessons: Numerical Patterning

My colleague Stacy Emory best describes re-engagement by comparing it to re-teaching. Re-teaching is a teacher-directed activity where we plan a different lesson to address something that is perceived to be a misconception with our students. Re-engagement is a learner-centered activity wherein the original task is posed in such a way that we may expose learners to different strategies, alternate solutions, or even misconceptions. Think of the original task as a formative assessment that helps you shape the lessons that follow.

As learners enter the 6th grade, they have had many experiences with modeling and describing numeric patterns. "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it! Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." – Howard Thurman. Why 20% Time is Good for Schools. Have you ever met an adult who doesn't really love what they do, but just goes through the motions in their job and everyday life?

Why 20% Time is Good for Schools

Have you spoken with men and women who constantly complain, showing no visible passion for anything in the world? I'm sure that, like me, you have met those people. I've also seen the making of these adults in schools across our country: students who are consistently being "prepared" for the next test, assessment, or grade level . . . only to find out after graduation that they don't really know what they are passionate about. These are the same students who are never allowed to learn what they want in school. Forced down a curriculum path that we believe is "best for them," they discover it is a path that offers very little choice in subject matter and learning outcomes.

Enter 20% time. What 20% time allows students to do is pick their own project and learning outcomes, while still hitting all the standards and skills for their grade level. Students Teachers.

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