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Habits of Mind are dispositions or thinking behaviors that are desirable attributes for learning and living productively in a complex world. People often use these habits when confronted with problems and situations to which the answers are not immediately apparent. The language of the dispositions is (and has always been) intentionally framed in positive, growth-oriented language. Each states a positive behavior and each starts with a verb that ends in “ing” to signify that it is always a behavior we can get better at and grow with. This is not a program but a lifelong framework dedicated to growing cognitive, social, and emotional development for all learners.
This framework for thinking is as essential now as when it was first introduced over 30 years ago. When we commit to growing the habits both individually and as a community, we become more thoughtful, responsive, and innovative. Over the years during many social, political, scientific, and economic changes, the 16 Habits of Mind still stand and the application in practice has grown our thinking.
Educating for a more thoughtful world.
The Institute is the world’s most established organization dedicated to growing the 16 Habits of Mind through research, consultations, resources, and certification.
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Students will need deliberate practice and focused attention to grow their capacity as efficacious thinkers to navigate and thrive in the face of unprecedented change.
Children will need deliberate practice and focused attention to grow their capacity as efficacious thinkers to navigate and thrive in the face of unprecedented change.
When leaders draw upon these dispositions when working with their colleagues, they both model and invite interdependence and innovation
When we draw upon intellectual resources, the results that are produced are more powerful, of higher quality, and of greater significance than if we fail to use those intellectual behaviors.
by Bena Kallick and Arthur Costa Rather than step backwards into the abyss of a “do your own thing” system in which questions of
By Sarah Evans How can we build cultural competence in elementary school-aged children? In a recent interview with Dr. Bena Kallick, co-founder of the
By Dr. Nick Bruski, Principal at Montecito Union School. Third in a series. Ignited in December of 2017, the largest wildfire in California history
By Robyn Ackerman One of my most favorite ways to teach children curriculum is through the pages of an engaging picture book! M is
Listen in on this Q&A on the Being Yourself channel with Ajay Mathur. It is like taking a mini-course in Habits of Mind!
By Art Costa, Allison Zmuda, and Bena Kallick An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of
We respond to all messages in the shortest possible time and in the order received.
