{"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>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. It is the \u201chow\u201d in answer to the \u201cwhat\u201d of powerful classroom practice. 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><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\"><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\"><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\"><\/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\"><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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