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10 Ideas to Start Building a Culture of Thinking at Your School

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Resource Summary

10 detailed activities designed to promote Cultures of Thinking, where a group’s collective as well as individual thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted.

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  • Have a conversation using the Chalk Talk routine 
  • Do a Ghost Walk at your school 
  • Engage in an article or book study 
  • Identify, "What thinking lives in my classroom?"
  • Discuss a video
  • Collect some data
  • Try a Thinking Routine schoolwide 
  • Use 
the
 Looking 
At 
Student
 Thinking 
(LAST)
 Protocol with a group
  • Institute a "What if...Week"
  • Celebrate thinking 

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