Learning & Leading With Habits of Mind

Keeping Hope Alive Our careers have taken us far. For us, the Habits of Mind have provided ways to stay resilient and to maintai ...

References Arin-Krupp, J. (1982). “Motivating experienced staff,” workshop, Minneapolis, MN. Buckingham, M., & Coffman, C. ( ...

The most powerful form of learning, the most sophisticated form of staff development, comes not from listening to the good works ...

and the experience of learning were so convincing that the school dis- trict has now developed districtwide plans to adopt and i ...

Within the first week of opening the 2005 school year at Thomasville Primary School in Thomasville, North Carolina, kindergarten ...

were studying pulleys, measurements, painting techniques, and da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man,” all relating to the curriculum unit. T ...

disabilities, or differences that make it difficult for them to demonstrate their potential on traditional identification measur ...

have high expectations for all students. This model required a partner- ship among teachers, instructional specialists, principa ...

Beginning in kindergarten and tailoring gifted methodologies for reg- ular classroom teachers to use with all children, Bright I ...

training and the practice in the classroom, the project has produced 135 concept-based integrated curriculum units. These units ...

To a n s w e r t h e s e qu e s t i o n s w e a r e c o l l e c t i n g s t u d e n t d a t a f r o m a l l t h r e e cohorts fr ...

These classrooms are beginning to represent true communities of learning that encourage both students and teachers to be risk ta ...

critical information to help parents understand the importance of practic- ing these behaviors for their children’s success in s ...

Course of Study with concept-based instruction and a thinking skills pro- gram; incorporated Marzano’s new taxonomy of education ...

achievement and teacher expectation; and (3) that in preliminary find- ings, Bright IDEA 2 is increasing the number of children ...

teachers to use with all children. This raises the performance of gifted and regular children and has led to the extraordinary r ...

Socratic questioning and discussions, performance-based tasks, and assess- ments designed by the teacher. When everything has be ...

work and life, but to be able to take a test successfully. The North Carolina story is still being written. References Alexander ...

Several years ago, Friendship Valley Elementary School in Westminster, Maryland, was just a partially completed shell. The new b ...

Refining the Vision The precepts of a home for the mind are simply stated, but they hold a powerful message. Many of Friendship ...