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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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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
Format: Print

How do we measure up?

Yvonne Denomy, vice principal and teacher librarian, describes an inquiry into children’s rights with grade three and four students that left her in awe as they were able to determine, locate, analyze, interpret, infer and judge from primary data.
Subjects: Civics, Social Studies, Mathematics, Professional Learning
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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Opportunity knocks! An engaging math discussion

Kendra Preston-Brooks explains how she made the most of a “teachable moment” to promote critical thinking in mathematics in her primary classroom.
Subjects: Mathematics, Professional Learning
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3
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Developing critically thoughtful, media-rich lessons in science: Process and product

Philip Balcaen describes a collaborative e-learning approach to professional development and a conceptual framework to support the teaching of critical thinking in science.
Subjects: Science, Professional Learning
Grades: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
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Building voluntary teacher networks

Roland Case and Walt Werner explore key factors in building and sustaining teacher networks to support instructional change.
Subjects: Professional Learning, Not Subject Specific
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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The power of critical thinking

Teacher Stephan Stipp describes the engaging effect on his grade 9 students of critical challenges that have real life connections to career choices.
Subjects: Social Studies, Professional Learning
Grades: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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