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Sharon Taberski, an independent consultant and teacher of 28 years, recently offered some thoughtful ideas about the design of our classrooms to make them more interactive. She discussed a need to not only construct our spaces to be more interactive, but to also construct our language to encourage interaction. A recent concern is that we have adopted the language of tests within our classes.  In other words, in teaching to the test, we begin to adopt approaches that require the same type of interaction with our students; meaning that we simply rattle off simple recall or short response questions at the expense of rich conversations and discussions. In response to this, Taberski believes that there are structural room design things that we can change, curriculum modificaitons, as well as language things we can take on. The first of these is changing the structure and design of our rooms.  She offered images of classrooms that were designed with...