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CROSS-BOOK PROBLEM-SOLVING FILE

A failed solution is still evidence

The office becomes more sophisticated when Dewey stops treating a proposed solution as sacred. Unexpected information, failed prototypes, and new problems created by old solutions all become reasons to revise.

CASE DEBRIEF

What can a failed plan teach you that a perfect plan cannot?

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.

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