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Board approves UCLA Center X cognitively guided instruction training for K''5 teachers
Summary
The Duarte USD Board approved a grant-funded professional development partnership with UCLA Center X to deliver cognitively guided instruction (CGI) training, coaching and lesson-study supports for kindergarten through fifth-grade teachers.
The Duarte Unified School District Board of Education on Thursday approved a districtwide professional development partnership with UCLA Center X to deliver cognitively guided instruction (CGI) for kindergarten through fifth-grade math teachers.
Dr. Kelly Lawson, Senior Director of Educational Services, told the board the CGI program emphasizes students' mathematical reasoning, problem solving and discourse rather than only procedural computation. "CGI is a research-based approach to teaching mathematics," Lawson said, explaining the…
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