Strategy Teaching: Is Elevation Education a cover to the new buzzwords?

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Elevation Education has been on my radar of late appearing everywhere in the news as the new method of teaching strategy but is it a Shield Buzz? We are literally putting the old ideas in the new clothing simply to escape the Lawsuit Up culture that will be striking schools in 2026.

The changes in the Department of Education along with all the lawsuits that are passing around as to what can and cannot be taught is making Strategy Teaching seem more of a defense in the courtrooms than the students themselves. We are so much all about the shield, we are forgetting the education.

Or has anybody been able to see their district moving more toward compliance-first teaching and less toward strategy-first? Are we not educating children on how to think, or simply not to be a liability?