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As you walk down the halls of many middle schools, you may notice content-specific signs outside of classrooms that say "Science" or "Math." Rarely do you see a classroom with multiple labels such as "Science/Math" to indicate that both subjects are taught concurrently in that classroom. Time and again recommendations are made to integrate teaching across all of the content areas, especially in science and mathematics. Unfortunately, this assimilation is not happening. One reason is that teachers are often specialized in one area while novice in another, and they do not know how to incorporate the different content areas. For this reason we ...

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