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Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development

    > Authentic Instruction

 authentic instruction boosts student achievement
Authentic pedagogy contributes to equal opportunity for all students to learn, rather than magnifying inequalities in achievement btetween groups that have traditionally been more and less advantaged

Improving Chicago's schools
When teachers assign more intellectually challenging tasks, students produce work of higher intellectual quality.

Let's Focus on Intellectual Quality
Educators can strengthen the prospects for authentic instruction and help students generate authentic intellectual work that involves construction of knowledge, requires disciplined inquiry, and has value beyond school.