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EPISODE · Jan 27, 2014 · 12 MIN

Free Will: Here's What Happened When I Gave Elementary School Students the Freedom Think, Try and Fail

from InnovatED - Tomorrow's Education Innovations Today

There's a prevailing view that we've raised a generation of students who are preoccupied with passing tests, strugle with too much freedom in the classroom and are afraid to fail. Our guest is an elementary school teacher whose classroom is on the leading edge of turning this around. Learn more... Follow: @mcnairan3 @donwettrick @bamradionetwork Andi McNair has been teaching for 14 years. She teaches gifted and talented students at Bosqueville Elementary in Waco, Texas. Andi enjoys sharing her passion for education and finding innovative ways to engage her students in the classroom.

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