This month we discuss the importance of classroom discussion and consider strategies to make group discussions more meaningful and aligned with developing the skills students will need in the future.

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Alexis Wiggins is the founder and director of the Cohort of Educators for Essential Learning (www.ceelcenter.org) and the author of The Best Class You Never Taught: How Spider Web Discussion Can Turn Students into Learning Leaders (ASCD). Alexis currently serves as the English Department Chair at The John Cooper School in The Woodlands, TX.