Sweet Lesson Closures

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Which quote about closure resonates most with you?

Kathy Ganske, PhD, is a literacy scholar and Research Professor (Emerita) at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College in Nashville.

• “Lesson closure provides space for students to digest and assimilate their learning and to realize why it all matters.”

• "We need to be sure we plan time to cycle back to the what, why, and how of students’ learning to help them actively synthesize the parts into a whole.”

• “Every lesson ends; effective lessons do more; they close; namely, they bring about a satisfying sense of learning by cycling back to the 'what,' 'why,' and 'how' of the learning so that students can take away lasting understandings.”

• “Closure is a component of planning and teaching that we can’t afford to leave out.”

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