Engagement Based Teaching and Learning

Seven essential articles to get you thinking about the Cultural Force:  Environment.  The environment can be improved, inexpensively, to create more opportunities for thinking and learning.  

This packet was given to participants at the Culture of Thinking (Cohort 2) learning event by Ron Richhart on May 18, 2013 (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan).  For more information:  http://blog.oakland.k12.mi.us/cot/

We have to move past the notion that there is ONE answer.  Creativity is the cornerstone of innovation (which is our future).  

"One of these techniques is the habit of looking: being aware and mindful of what is happening around you. A second technique is making: putting your ideas out in the world, creating through drawing and building. A third technique is asking: Identifying good questions and formulating problems in productive ways."

"Creative insights always come from combinations of existing mental material. New ideas don't just appear out of thin air; they build on existing ideas, concepts, and perceptions, that you've stored in your mind over the years."