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Book review: Alan Schoenfeld, Heather Fink, Sandra Zuñiga-Ruiz, Siqi Huang, Xinyu Wei, and Brantina Chirinda (2023) Helping students become powerful thinkers: case studies of teaching for robust understanding

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  1. Congenial conversations are generally agreeable discussions in which participants focus on politeness and privacy and avoid fault lines and conflict. Collegial conversations are characterized by deep collaboration where participants display an inquiry habit of mind, use relevant data, and develop relationships based on trust and mutual respect.

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The author is one of the principal investigators for the NSF-funded grant (#1908309), AIM-TRU, that has produced a repository of secondary mathematics video case studies and a corresponding professional development model that is anchored in the Teaching for Robust Understanding framework.

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Murray, E. Book review: Alan Schoenfeld, Heather Fink, Sandra Zuñiga-Ruiz, Siqi Huang, Xinyu Wei, and Brantina Chirinda (2023) Helping students become powerful thinkers: case studies of teaching for robust understanding. Educ Stud Math (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-024-10312-w

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