My professional goal this year has been to make Visible Thinking (as a form of documentation and through the use of  routines ) an or...

Just finished a weekend workshop with Ron Ritchhart , working toward " Creating a Culture of Thinking " in the classroom. Turns ...

This week in Math class I introduced a new Visible Thinking routine, the Think Puzzle Explore .  It was perfect and I felt SO energized af...

Today we started a new Visible Thinking routine, Zoom In , that I'm hoping to keep up with in the class. [ Side note, I'm attendi...

We be havin' 'em. Plenty of 'em, too. Aside from enlisting the help of our guidance counselor, Information Literacy teacher, ...

We're just beginning our new Unit of Inquiry, Communication Systems. As a grade level team, we've decided to put a big emphasis o...

Today we got to see some of the amazing work completed by our High School Robotics classes. There were so many cool things to see - from a ...

Yep, it’s true. After finding a cockroach in our classroom yesterday, students were having all kinds of interesting conversations (and rea...

I've just started Harvard's Making Thinking Visible  course online as part of our Professional Development program here at ISM. I...

We're getting into the thick of our latest Inquiry focus, all about types of energy. All of the teachers on my team have chosen one typ...

This year, one of the key concepts I've tried to implement in the classroom is giving students an opportunity to make their thinking vi...