Learning & Leading With Habits of Mind

Signals, Recognitions, Celebrations, and Rituals To e n s u r e t h a t a l l m e m b e r s o f t h e s c h o o l c o m mu n i t ...

Habits of Mind are plainly exhibited on the walls, in the corridors, and along the stairways. (See Chapters 20 and 21 for accoun ...

Their work and their effectiveness will, of course, depend on the school’s or the district’s administrative leadership. As descr ...

Classroom Interaction School leaders stay in touch with instruction in the classroom. Know- ing that the teachers have been lear ...

agenda today and the problem we are focused on, which of the Habits of Mind might be most important for us to employ?” The group ...

Coaching provides a rich experience for teachers to think about their thinking (Costa & Garmston, 2002). Coaching supports ...

It is through social interaction that new concepts and intellectual behav- iors are formed and grown. Thinking Interdependently ...

Three practices that school leaders can support as ways to encour- age interdependent thinking and build learning communities am ...

Studying student work is another way to encourage reflection on prac- tice. There are many protocols that are used for this purp ...

School leaders, in an atmosphere of trust, challenge existing prac- tices, assumptions, policies, and traditional ways of delive ...

of Mind openly in designing strategies for achieving the vision of their school as a home for the mind (Costa, 2007). See also A ...

•examine assumptions on taken-for-granted ideas? •develop a “plan of action” before they launch into a project? Some districts h ...

occur naturally the students and parents are aware of them on a conscious level. After we’ve been in school for a few months and ...

interviews two people about their use of Habits of Mind in their daily life. Children interview parents, siblings, the principal ...

Some schools have invited business people from the community to discuss with students how the Habits of Mind are used in their c ...

who the data sources are, and over what period of time the information should be collected (Edwards, 2007). School leaders encou ...

Ellison, J., & Hayes, C. (2006). Effective school leadership: Developing principals through cognitive coaching. Norwood, MA: ...

291 Habits of Mind for the Systems-Savvy Leader Jennifer Abrams 16 When I began to work outside the classroom as a teacher on sp ...

292 Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind strategy for sustained, substantive school improvement is building the capacity of ...

that results in their learning the skills and capabilities needed to further the goals of the school for the benefit of the stud ...