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    Deep learning engages senses, moves, heart, NSDC academy finds

    By Learning Forward
    August 2009
    “What are you learning about learning?” This theme echoed throughout NSDC Academy 2010’s learning teams as they met for the third time at the 2009 Summer Conference in Boston this year. The NSDC Academy is an extended 21⁄2- year, problem-based, inquiry-driven learning experience designed to immerse school and district leaders in authen- tic collaborative learning so they not only develop as lead- ers of professional learning, but also understand and appreciate the deep structure of this form of professional learning. Conversations centered on the realization that transferring knowledge and developing skills are only two elementary levels of learning. Learning that lasts and impacts students occurs when educators transform how they think about and act on what they know. This form of learning is rarely embedded in

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