• That is, if we can seed new instructional practices through the prism of what teachers are currently doing, they are more likely to feel comfortable about experimenting, even though it may be a new direction for them or a new tool.
• personalizing professional learning had a greater impact on student learning than what was taught in that professional learning.
• They may be doing the practices, but they’re not familiar with the concepts. If they’re not familiar with the concepts, they don’t value it. They don’t see it as an equity imperative for their students. They don’t see computational thinking as problem solving because they don’t have the familiarit
• every student should learn computational thinking strategies. It’s an equity imperative.

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• Peer evaluation in an asynchronous or synchronous online environment plays an essen-
  tial role as a formative learning activity, shaping how students engage with the course
  material, how they work together, and the quality of their overall learning experience
• emphasizing the formative
  over the summative aspects of peer evaluation sup-
  ports the development of the soft skills and behaviors
  students require to become more adaptive, resilient,
  reflective, and collaborative human beings