Creating Thinking Classrooms: Leading Educational Change for This Century

Reinvigorating today’s schools with quality thinking

Critical, creative and collaborative thinking should be at the center of all 21st century teaching and learning. Creating Thinking Classrooms is loaded with examples, stories and strategies for reinvigorating schools through quality thinking and reasoning. Written for leaders who support teachers, this guide treats educational change as a process of renovation, rather than revolution, and emphasizes building upon, refining and sustaining the many good things happening in today’s schools. Practical and user-friendly, it emphasizes five key principles for learning and teaching:

• Engaging students
• Sustaining inquiry
• Nurturing self-regulated learners
• Creating assessment-rich learning
• Enhancing learning through digital technology