How Spider Web Discussions Drive Student Directed Learning

Join us as we define spider-web discussions and how they can powerfully engage students, drive learning, and encourage student voice. Follow: @mattwachel @alexiswiggins @ASCD @bamradionetwork Alexis Wiggins,`author of The Best Class You Never Taught: How Spider Web Discussion Can Turn Students into Learning Leaders, is the founder and director of the Cohort of Educators for Essential Learning (CEEL), an organization that unites like-minded educators around the globe. She has worked as a high school and middle school English teacher in six different countries and as an instructional coach for all subject areas. ASCD Emerging Leader and host Matt Wachel is an elementary assistant principal in the Park Hill School District in Kansas City, MO.