Looking forward, back at school year

By Karen Quanbeck, Jeffco Schools, Golden Transcript | July 12, 2016

In many of our schools, students are enjoying more project-based learning, hands-on projects that require working in small groups and solving messy problems. Small groups of educators from Wheat Ridge are attending conferences across the state to learn from national experts on 21st-century learning. We are grateful in the Wheat Ridge area for our partnership with CEI, the Colorado Education Initiative, for support of this learning. Two books that parents might find interesting: “Creating Innovators” by Tony Wagner and “Helping Students Succeed” by Paul Tough.

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