Season 5: Curious Schools
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Season 5: Curious Schools
Join Audrey Mendivil and Mark Alcorn in an asynchronous book club for teachers and leaders as we explore Building A Curious School: Restore the joy that brought you to school by Bryan Goodwin in an asynchronous book club. Read along with us by either previewing or reviewing the selected text in the podcast and continue the conversation on Twitter using #SumMathChat or sumofitallpodcast@sdcoe.net.
Episodes
Transcripts of each episode are available online.
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