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Rio Rancho Education Foundation awards $4,000 grant to expand "Building Thinking Classrooms" in district middle schools
Summary
The Rio Rancho Education Foundation awarded a $4,000 grant to support Building Thinking Classrooms — a research-based math-teaching approach — for all four district middle schools; the board was presented the donation and staff noted board policy requires formal acceptance of grants at a later meeting.
The Rio Rancho Education Foundation presented a $4,000 grant to Rio Rancho Public Schools to expand the Building Thinking Classrooms program — a research-based approach developed by Peter Liljedahl that emphasizes randomized collaborative groups, standing whiteboards and problem-solving tasks.
Jessica Mercer, a teacher who piloted the method last spring at Eagle Ridge Middle School, described immediate improvements she…
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