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Around the World in 18 Schools Lesson #1: Context Matters! (Part 2 of 5)

9/22/2016

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Over the past year, one theme that kept surfacing for me across visits was the importance of contextual factors in designing learning experiences and determining priorities.

Although the importance of context to inform our understanding may seem obvious with global comparisons (ie. a school in rural Uganda compared to a school in urban Toronto faces clearly different circumstances), contextual factors can play an important role for schools even within the same city.
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Two distinct schools in New York helped me to demonstrate this first lesson: Context Matters.
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Senior students at TYWLS (The Young Women's Leadership School) in East Harlem, New York.
Here is a brief explanation shared at AERO2016:

Around the World in 18 Schools Lesson #1: Context Matters (Part 2 of 5) from edumodels on Vimeo.

I look forward to sharing lesson #2 next week!
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