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I'm reading this very much in conversation with Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain; to the extent that they feel like handbooks to one another.

My big takeaway here is that learning is for LIFE, not for school. Inability to transfer knowledge from English is illiteracy. Reflection questions for myself to answer later. What are the abstract principles students need to succeed in my content area? How can those abstractions be presented and practiced in such a way that students begin to see the connections across multiple contexts?

Two things: 1) it is shocking how much of our scientific understanding of human behavior is rooted in animal cruelty 2) it is equally shocking that these ideas are still up for debate? really goes to show you that people will SAY they are changing and adopt the new language while continuing to stay exactly the same