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Meads Mill rolls out Building Thinking Classrooms to boost engagement across subjects
Summary
Northville Public Schools’ Meads Mill Middle School presented a year-long effort to use Building Thinking Classrooms strategies — randomized grouping, vertical nonpermanent boards and rich thinking tasks — to increase student attention, collaborative problem solving and retention across math, science and English.
The Northville Public Schools Board of Education heard a detailed presentation Tuesday from Meads Mill Middle School teachers and students on rolling out Building Thinking Classrooms, an instructional approach the school is expanding across subject areas.
School leaders said the approach focuses on “authentic engagement” — high attention paired with high commitment — by giving students thinking tasks, frequently forming randomized groups, and using vertical, nonpermanent surfaces for visible group work. Dr. Carrie Zielinski, the presenter, told the board the method is grounded in research and centers on 14 classroom factors that change how students engage with tasks.
The initiative matters because Meads Mill…
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