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Simulations create situations where knowledge becomes functional, not declarative. Watch Career and Technology Teacher Captain Nick Swift use a simulation of a house fire to apprentice his students in search and rescue in California. To learn more, read Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey’s column "Simulations That Stick" in the September 2026 issue of EL magazine.

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