Direct instruction variation where the teacher presents for ten minutes, students share and reflect for two minutes, then the cycle repeats.
Padania is an alternative name for the Po Valley, a major plain in the north of Italy. The term was sparingly used until the early 1990s, when Lega Nord, a federalist and, at times, separatist political party in Italy, proposed Padania as a possible name for an independent state in Northern Italy.
1 Cortana (software), Microsoft personal assistant software. 2  Cortana (Halo), a fictional artificial intelligence character. 3  Cortana (gastropod), a gastropod genus.  Cortana, or Curtana, a ceremonial sword used in the coronation of British monarchs.