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50 Sentence Stems for Reading Critically

Critical reading is about gathering knowledge, understanding context, and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text.

As we make learning visible, the process and sequence of learning is illuminated. This helps students see understanding as always evolving.

A good question can open minds, shift paradigms, and force the uncomfortable but transformational cognitive dissonance that can help create thinkers.

The shift toward a fluid, formless, socialized nature of information, thought, and belief is a not a small one.

When introducing students to new content, the right questions and language can help disarm uncertainty and encourage a growth mindset.

A good school decenters itself–makes its curriculum, policies, and other ‘pieces’ less visible than students and hope and growth.

The need to be rational collides with the enormous complexity and scale of the circumstances teachers face.

One goal for disruption in education could be the ongoing emergence of new ideas–new learning models, content, new strategies and thinking.