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Our professional learning library features a variety of themes and types of resources, all focused on how to integrate critical, creative, and collective thinking into your practice.

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Teaching Students to Use Criteria

This resource clearly explains the importance of criteria in critical thinking. When students are invited to respond to critical questions, criteria enable them to carefully weigh the options and make reasoned judgments about those questions. The resource provides teachers with practical tools and s…
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $14.95

Using Thoughtbooks to Sustain Inquiry

Use the practical ideas, examples and templates in this resource to help students use the Thoughtbook format to capture their thinking and to revisit and refine their evolving work. See all of the titles in the Quick Guides to Thinking Classrooms series
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $14.95

Framing Critical Inquiry Questions and Tasks

Use the practical ideas, examples and templates in this resource to support student inquiry with questions and tasks that effectively promote critical, creative and collaborative thinking. See all of the titles in the Quick Guides to Thinking Classrooms series
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $12.95

Creating Thinking Classrooms

Navigate the opportunities and challenges of current reform initiatives by focusing on three important shifts: reorienting to a thinking classroom; attending to enriched goals; and aligning practices with key principles of 21st century learning. Please note: Corwin has published a U.S. version of…
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $32.95

Assessing Mathematical Thinking: A Focus on Reasoning Competencies

Assessing Mathematical Thinking presents a framework for effectively assessing and evaluating thinking in math. It shows how building assessment practices on a foundation of essential mathematical reasoning competencies provides a clearly defined, manageable, and consistent way to target assess…
Subjects: Mathematics
Grades: K, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Regular Price: $23.95

Building a Community of Thinkers

Use the practical ideas, examples and templates in this resource to build a learning community in which high-quality thinking is modeled, supported and explicitly encouraged. See all of the titles in the Quick Guides to Thinking Classrooms series
Subjects: Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Regular Price: $12.95