The authors present educators with strategies for designing diverse ways of gathering, organizing, and reporting evidence of self-directed learning.

The contributors present a strong case for teaching the learning process--which evidence shows can be more effective than the teaching of specific disciplines.

This work describes how curriculum development, instruction, assessment, and teaching are different in a process-oriented learning organization.

This book details the steps that need to be taken to move from a traditional school system to a true learning organization.

Examines why educators need to integrate explicit thinking instruction into daily lessons and illustrates what thinking-and the teaching of thinking-looks and sounds like.

Examines why educators need to integrate explicit thinking instruction into daily lessons and illustrates what thinking-and the teaching of thinking-looks and sounds like.

Teaching students the intelligent behaviors they need to succeed in school and later in life is much easier when you have this collection of stories and observations from teachers who have used the principles of ASCD's book Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind in their classrooms. Through these first-hand accounts, learn how the habits of mind help students at all grade levels successfully deal with the challenges they face in school and beyond. Explore how teachers make thinking skills a foundation of curriculum, not an add-on. And discover lots of model lessons and teaching strategies...

Are your students poised for success? Need a clear roadmap for achieving the college and career readiness goals of the Common Core and 21st century learning? Grounded in Costa and Kallick's groundbreaking habits of mind work, and informed by current research, this book helps educators: * Build consensus around what attributes and abilities all students should possess by the time they graduate * Develop a common language around these dispositions so that students will encounter them daily * Integrate these dispositions into curriculum design, instruction, and assessment * Create school...