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CROSS-BOOK PROBLEM-SOLVING FILE

A shared problem can turn opponents into collaborators

Dewey rarely solves his hardest problems alone. Friends gather evidence he cannot reach, students turn complaints into a shared campaign, and sibling opponents can become allies when they have a genuine problem to solve together.

CASE DEBRIEF

What changes when people stop trying to defeat one another and work on the same problem?

Use the case maps to compare how this idea changes when the problem belongs to a parent, a teacher, a school system, or a sibling.

CLARA'S INDEX TERMS

Ways into the same drawer.

teamworkcollaborative problem solvingcommon causeshared goalworking togetherconflict to cooperation