Social Awareness & Relationship Skills are essential for forming and maintaining positive relationships so that peers and educators can become learning partners.
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Doing this collaboratively in the classroom through interactive activities also helps reduce students' anxiety around reading and writing in those subject areas.
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Research suggests that bringing thoughtful conversations to the classroom about difficult funds of knowledge can support learners' Motivation and engagement, as well as their critical consciousness and Civic Mindedness.
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