I caution you against starting gradually. One of the things the research showed over and over again is that if the change you make is too subtle, then the students’ behaviors don’t change, and the changes in your teaching practice will have very little impact. As mentioned, this is why the first toolkit in the Building Thinking Classrooms Framework contains the practices it does and why they are to be enacted together—to signal to students that this is different, and that they need to behave differently.
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Pacing
