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Hacking Learning Centers in Grades 6-12: How to Design Small-Group Instruction to Foster Active Learning, Shared Leadership, and Student Accountability

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Think learning centers are only for elementary students? Think again. Learning centers for grade 6 and beyond can transform your classroom into a dynamic learning experience.

A learning centers model enhances excellent pedagogy. Learning is a dynamic experience, and students thrive when educators acknowledge individual learners’ needs and interests and inspire them to engage with the content more deeply within personalized middle and high school spaces.

Learning centers create robust thinkers, problem-solvers, and brave leaders. As teachers and administrators, we can build learning structures that include everyone and allow students to collaborate, experiment, reflect, self-assess, and transfer the learning to their lives beyond school.

Hacking Learning Centers in Grades 6–12 shares the “why” along with practical guidance to design and teach with learning centers. Authors and award-winning educators Starr Sackstein and Karen Terwilliger show how

208 pages, Paperback

Published September 28, 2021

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Making the Classroom More Student-Centered

This book provides ideas for making the classroom more student-centered. It discusses ways to implement learning centers in the upper grades. I found the hacks to be doable. I am now forming a plan for how to use them in my room.
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