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Two students solving a math equation on a blackboard.
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| Students have more positive and productive math learning experiences in classrooms that provide them with supportive relationships, a strong sense of belonging within the classroom and broader math community, and a firm conviction in their capacity to grow their mathematical abilities through experience and practice.
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Two students solving a math equation on a blackboard.
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| Students have more positive and productive math learning experiences in classrooms that provide them with supportive relationships, a strong sense of belonging within the classroom and broader math community, and a firm conviction in their capacity to grow their mathematical abilities through experience and practice.
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Transforming Schools blog series: Educating In The AI Era
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| As AI reshapes the world, U.S. schools face an urgent reckoning: redesign outdated factory-era models of education.
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A teacher talking to a group of students in a classroom.
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| The science of learning and development demonstrates that when young people maintain positive school-based relationships, their learning and well-being is supported and enhanced. Secondary school educators and staff can implement practices that prioritize relationships and caring in order to optimize student learning, well-being, and agency.
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A teacher at the front of the classroom with high school-aged students listening to him speak.
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| The science of learning and development demonstrates the value of positive relationships for student success and well-being. Secondary schools can integrate structures to cultivate the conditions that enable healthy attachments to grow between teachers and students, as well as between and among school staff and students’ families.
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Transforming Schools blog series: "Putting the Learner at the Center" by Laura E. Hernández and Cheryl Jones-Walker
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| The science of learning and development reveals how to design high schools so that learners can thrive in environments that support individualized development; where they have strong, supportive relationships; and where their social, emotional, physical, and cognitive needs are met.
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Two high school students work together in science class holding up a model skeleton
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| A number of schools have been effective at rejecting the factory model and redesigning their systems to create safe environments with opportunities for exciting and rigorous academic work. Their successes have ideas in common, offering 10 important lessons for other schools.
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School principal and student walking down hallway together
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| Providing engaging learning experiences to all students requires school leaders to implement new school structures and classroom practices. Leadership programs can help school leaders acquire and apply the knowledge and skills needed to support this transformation, and policies can bolster adoption of the practices that lead to deeper learning.