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Oct 2023
27m 40s

Student Choice with Tom Schimmer

Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools
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How can we keep students in the driver’s seat of their own learning? In this episode, we connect with Tom Schimmer, an education author, speaker, and consultant from Vancouver, Canada. Our host, Abril, speaks with Tom about leveraging student agency, assessment practices that empower young learners, and what it means to ‘scale up’ in schools.

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