Today we explored the first chapter of Ron Ritchhart’s new book Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools. This chapter presents three stories of education: the old story, the current story, and crafting a different story. Staff members read and discussed the latter two stories of education and recorded their thinking with a 4C’s routine.  Some of the 4C’s discussed were learning in collaboration instead of isolation, seeing past educational barriers, and engaging students with their thinking and that of others. Staff members also watched Bring on the Learning Revolution by Sir Ken Robinson and discussed ways to craft a different learning story in their own classrooms.  

Today's afternoon PD session included three opportunities to grow the conversation regarding the 8 Cultural Forces in our classrooms: