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In The Unbound Classoom, educator Chelsea Miro invites readers to ""imagine a classroom that empowers every student to pursue their interests, to travel the paths of their curiosity, to allow learning to be a natural process."" But what does this look like, sound like, and feel like? How can teachers design their classrooms and lessons to bring this vision to reality? Drawing on the inclusive principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), The Unbound Classroom strives to create a real-world experience for students by removing disciplinary boundaries and allowing for thematic learning to take the lead. Rather than focus on a singular driving question, units cover a wide variety of relevant questions and ideas centered on the real-world study of a theme. With this strategy, students find the mode that is most engaging for them, and then allow their curiosity to guide their focus. UDL helps teachers think about the varying ways students learn and address that variability before each and every lesson. Integrating the UDL guidelines with cross-disciplinary, thematic units, results in a classroom that is ready to support the growth, curiosity, and insight of every student. By focusing on a central theme rather than a singular driving question, Miro's Unbound Classroom also becomes highly flexible. Teachers can develop a few lessons that integrate the disciplines and use the foundational approach or they can commit to an all-encompassing unit. The focus is on thinking outside the structures of the disciplines - math, science, English, history - and instead thinking about how to best learn all the facets of a particular topic, how to create rich, deep learning opportunities. In this stimulating and thought-provoking book, Miro walks through each step of creating a robust thematic unit but also includes shorter lessons, activities and strategies that teachers can take to their classrooms immediately.

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Chelsea Miro, not only a gifted writer, is a creative, original thinker, training her curiosity on the art of teaching and learning. In The Unbound Classroom, she offers all of us--educators, learners, parents--a fresh, empathetic approach to re-imagining how and why we learn best. --Billie Fitzpatrick, M.Ed., Chief Learning Strategist, Write the World Brilliant, refreshing and meaningful. As an educator for more than 30 years, I appreciate this approach because it offers student choice while easily incorporating academic standards. This book is a necessary toolkit for any teacher who truly wants to build upon children's innate curiosity to explore and understand their world. Its straightforward and practical layout ensures this can be immediately put into use in the classroom. Unbound is sure to become a teacher's constant companion. -- Lisa Gilmore, M.Ed., Curriculum and Instruction, 3rd Grade Teacher in Houston

"""Chelsea Miro, not only a gifted writer, is a creative, original thinker, training her curiosity on the art of teaching and learning. In The Unbound Classroom, she offers all of us--educators, learners, parents--a fresh, empathetic approach to re-imagining how and why we learn best."" --Billie Fitzpatrick, M.Ed., Chief Learning Strategist, Write the World ""Brilliant, refreshing and meaningful. As an educator for more than 30 years, I appreciate this approach because it offers student choice while easily incorporating academic standards. This book is a necessary toolkit for any teacher who truly wants to build upon children's innate curiosity to explore and understand their world. Its straightforward and practical layout ensures this can be immediately put into use in the classroom. Unbound is sure to become a teacher's constant companion."" -- Lisa Gilmore, M.Ed., Curriculum and Instruction, 3rd Grade Teacher in Houston"

The Unbound Classroom offers a fresh, empathetic approach to reimagining how and why we learn best. -- Billie Fitzpatrick, Chief Learning Strategist, Write the World.

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Chelsea Miro is the founder of the tutoring consultancy Chelsea Miro Educators, a K-12 learning specialist, former elementary school educator and contributor to Edutopia. She holds two degrees from Brown University, including a Master of Arts in Teaching. The Unbound Classroom - a guide to creating cross-disciplinary, thematic units in the elementary classroom - is her first book.

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