PD, Pumpkin Spice, and Everything Nice!

Experience the phenomenon of Building Thinking Classrooms in any content leading to increased student engagement and deep content thinking which, in turn, increases student achievement and closes learning gaps. Explore how to move instruction away from teacher dependency, rote-memorization, and student apathy by utilizing the techniques embedded within strategic collaborative thinking. This session will introduce you to six of the fourteen thinking practices and will give you the opportunity to experience them first hand.