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Oct 2023
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215: Seventeen Tweaks That Make a Big Di...

JENNIFER GONZALEZ
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Cooperative learning can be a powerful learning strategy, but only if it works well. In this episode Connie Hamilton, author of Hacking Group Work, returns to the podcast to share 17 small changes you can try that will make group work more effective in your classroom.


Thanks to EVERFI and Verizon Innovative Learning HQ for sponsoring this episode.


You can read a full transcript of this podcast at cultofpedagogy.com/group-work-17-tweaks/.

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