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Integrating Systems Thinking to Enhance Liberal Arts Curriculum through Learner-Centered Teaching 

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Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. Systems thinking helps students understand the broader purpose of their education and how different disciplines interconnect.

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Integrating Systems Thinking to Enhance Liberal Arts Curriculum through Learner-Centered Teaching 

Faculty Focus

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. Systems thinking helps students understand the broader purpose of their education and how different disciplines interconnect.

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Courses Designed to Address Learning Loss Due to COVID-19

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To address this disruption – and to promote readiness for the upcoming school year – Edgenuity has developed these new solutions to support students in mastering critical concepts and skills from the last school year while preparing for future courses.

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A win for jocks both on the field and online

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Additional on-campus and online experiences include: Boarding school and camps , via a state-of-the-art campus inBradenton, Fla. “With IMG Academy and NCSA, we’re making sure student-athletes don’t have to choose between success in sports and success in school.”

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Marketplace trend update: 6 new products, teaching strategies, and learning initiatives

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Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education has launched a short online course designed specifically to help educators create rich and meaningful opportunities for communication within the classroom. The course, Effective Conversation in the Classroom, launches in August with three online sessions.

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Every College Wants To Help Students Succeed. One Is Making Them Courseware Co-Creators.

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The equity gap is pernicious and growing,” says Stephen Burke, dean of Arts and Humanities for the college, which serves about 6,800 students and is located about 30 miles north of New York City. “In Stephen Burke (left), dean of Arts and Humanities at Rockland Community College.

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School Needs a Redesign, and Educators Can Lead the Way

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You’d be learning to step toward resilience, agility, designing with others, creative collaboration. Much as I wish I’d taken a course like Obstacles, I only learned about it from Olivia Brown, an artist at Meow Wolf , an arts and entertainment company based in Santa Fe that exemplifies the new creative economy.

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