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• Hold children accountable for academic vocabulary
• Provide opportunities for a variety of responses (oral, written and using media and technology)
• Communicate for different purposes- to inform, instruct, motivate, persuade, question, and entertain.
• Explicitly teach active listening skills
• Children should be able to use self regulation
• Children should be able to effectively communicate with peers
• Children should be able to explain their thinking
• Ask your child to repeat steps and procedures back to you to check for active listening and understanding

• Provide opportunities for ongoing repetitive practice
• Guide children toward independence (checklists, timers, reminders…)
• Children should be able to exercise self control
• Create goals, plan, and reflect
• Children should be able to focus/avoid distractions
• Children should be able to increase and maintain stamina
• Children should retain information taught
• Children should persist at problem solving
• Remember- process vs product! Grit, determination, and learning from mistakes are more important than correct answers!

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• Create opportunity for project based learning and interdisciplinary connections
• Provide your child with real world experiences (take day trips, go to the Zoo, a festival, museum, Peabody Preserve….)
• Emphasize processes, imagination, and thinking “outside of the box.” Leave room for the unexpected!
• Provide opportunities for children to show their knowledge in a variety of ways or formats.
• Create environments in which children feel safe to take risks in their thinking and expression.
• Identify multiple solutions to the same problem.

• Provide opportunities for problem solving and application
• Model flexible thinking
• Represent different ways to explain thinking and judge quality of different strategies and solutions using logical reasoning
• Show students how to question first before accepting things as they appear to be, as well as making their own judgment based on the facts, information and knowledge available.
• Provide opportunities for students to inquire (what is the problem and what are its boundaries?), imagine (what are alternative views/perspectives?), do (argue and justify one’s own view), and reflect (self-reflect on possible limitations and uncertainties).
• Create reviews as a family (books, restaurants, movies…)
• Analyze and evaluate information to make the best possible decision

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• Create interest by beginning with a big question or unusual activity
• Ask and use children’s own questions to spark curiosity
• Think aloud
• Create a blank slate for children so they have the opportunity to be curious
• Collaborate with others by creating questions and challenging answers in a respectful manner
• Children should feel comfortable to share information and ideas

• Teach children to persist and overcome, despite obstacles
• Make it acceptable to struggle- don’t enable “learned helplessness”
• Teach that it is okay to make mistakes, mistakes are part of the process
• Celebrate attempts in learning
• Encourage your child to finish what they begin, and remain committed
• Set and work to achieve goals
• Develop strategies to handle failure or difficulty (deep breathing, taking breaks, setting an achievable goal…)
• Process v. Product
• Identify and highlight characters/individuals/writers/figures who have demonstrated perseverance in their lives and work.

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• Embrace neurodiversity, cultural diversity, and value human rights
• Recognize global issues and understand our interconnected world
• Act responsibly in our community
• Manage complexity and uncertainty. Keep it age appropriate for your child.
• Recognize how decisions in one part of the world affect us all, and contribute to creating a tolerant, inclusive, safe, and sustainable society.
• Promote sustainable development and human rights by actively participating in society, politics, community activities, and environment care.
• Use information, technology, and social networks ethically and responsibly
• Respect and collaborate with diverse people to find creative and transformative solutions that benefit everyone.

• Provide opportunities for civil engagement (ex. voting)
• Provide opportunities to volunteer and get involved in the community
• Provide opportunities for healthy debate
• Understand and model the logistics of making change
• Take on global issues and connect locally
• Celebrate your family’s history and heritage
• Develop the civic agency and confidence to vote, volunteer, attend public meetings, and engage with their communities.
• Discuss social values and acknowledge a variety of perspectives.

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