Pathways to Thinking Schools

First Edition

Edited by:

David N. Hyerle - Designs for Thinking, Writer/Author
Larry Alper - Designs for Thinking

Foreword by Yvette Jackson

Other Titles in:
Continuing Professional Development | Leadership & Management | Reflective Practice

May 2014 | 280 pages | Corwin

Based on the successful, proven Thinking Maps model developed by David Hyerle, this book makes a compelling case for making an explicit focus on thinking the foundation for every school. Enabling all students to become drivers of their own thinking and learning, a Thinking School is defined as an educational community in which all members share a common commitment to giving regular, careful thought to everything that takes place including learning how to think reflectively, critically and creatively.

List of Figures

Foreword by Yvette Jackson

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

About the Contributors

1. Catalyst: Thinking Schools as a Catalyst for Transformational Change

2. Imperative

Working to Avoid Intellectual Apartheid

Elizabeth Dellamora

Questions for Enquiry

3. Brain-Mind

Brain Mapping and Mapping Minds

Kimberly Williams

Questions for Enquiry

4. Criteria

Criteria for a Thinking Schools Approach

Bob Burden

Questions for Enquiry

5. Journey

Journey Toward Becoming a Thinking School

Gill Hubble

Questions for Enquiry

6. School

The Tree of Learning

Richard Coe

Questions for Enquiry

7. System

A System-Wide Vision for Thinking

Donna J. DeSiato and Judy Morgan

Questions for Enquiry

8. Language

Thinking Language Learners

Estee Lopez and Larry Alper

Questions for Enquiry

9. Coaching

Improving the Quality of Teaching Through Visual Coaching and Supervision

Kathy Ernst

Questions for Enquiry

10. Leading

Leading Connectively

Larry Alper and David Hyerle

Questions for Enquiry

11. Country

Robert Seth Price and Bereket Aweke

Thinking Schools Ethiopia

Questions for Enquiry

Appendix

Index

"In a global community, countries recognize reciprocal interests and the need and benefit of interdependence. Therefore, this new paradigm of a global community calls for Thinking Schools internationally; schools where students will be equipped to think dialectically, reflecting on the ramifications and possibilities of interdependence; schools where students will be cultivated to transform themselves to be self-actualized and who make contributions to transform the world so this millennium is the one in which we achieve the global success of cooperation, high productivity globally, and innovation of efficient and effective use of our most promising and productive resource: our mind and the thinking it generates."

Yvette Jackson, Chief Executive Officer

National Urban Alliance