{"id":342,"date":"2025-05-13T18:24:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/?page_id=342"},"modified":"2025-05-13T18:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:50:16","slug":"our-approach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/our-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>We need adults who know how to work together to solve problems<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is the Critical Skills Classroom?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Critical Skills approach builds powerful lessons in classrooms at all levels. It combines experiential learning, problem-based learning, and rigorous high standards within an intentionally created collaborative learning community, creating classrooms that many educators imagine but can\u2019t quite put together. 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And it was created, continues to be created, by practicing classroom teachers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-columns gb-layout-columns-2 gb-2-col-equal\"><div class=\"gb-layout-column-wrap gb-block-layout-column-gap-2 gb-is-responsive-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"410\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/05\/1-1-410x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/05\/1-1-410x1024.jpg 410w, https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/05\/1-1-120x300.jpg 120w, https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/05\/1-1-768x1920.jpg 768w, https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/05\/1-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"410\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/05\/2-1-410x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/05\/2-1-410x1024.jpg 410w, https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/05\/2-1-120x300.jpg 120w, https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/05\/2-1-768x1920.jpg 768w, https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/05\/2-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-columns gb-layout-columns-3 gb-3-col-equal\"><div class=\"gb-layout-column-wrap gb-block-layout-column-gap-2 gb-is-responsive-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-highlight-text has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Critical Skills Research Base<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1920\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1080 \/ 1920;\" width=\"1080\" controls preload=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/Constructivsim-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-highlight-text has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why Critical Skills?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1920\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1080 \/ 1920;\" width=\"1080\" controls poster=\"https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-10644 PM.png\" src=\"https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/Why-Critical-Skills-The-World-is-Changing.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-genesis-blocks-gb-column gb-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"gb-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-highlight-text has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Critical Skills in Under a Minute<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1920\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1080 \/ 1920;\" width=\"1080\" controls loop poster=\"https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-10458 PM.png\" src=\"https:\/\/center.antioch.edu\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/07\/Critical-Skills-in-Under-a-Minute.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need adults who know how to work together to solve problems What is the Critical Skills Classroom? 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