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Category: Art Costa

How to Coach for Thinking, Not Imitation

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  By Bena Kallick, Art Costa, and Allison Zmuda Coaching to develop skills is different from coaching for thinking. When you coach students to build skill development, the expectation is that they will be learning by imitation. However, when you coach learning that requires deeper, strategic thinking, then your purpose Read More …

Allison Zmuda, Art Costa, Bena Kallick, Newsletterscoaching

The Coach’s Dilemma

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  By Art Costa Mark is a mentor/coach in a regional service center in a midwestern state. He was invited to take this position because of his vast experience not only as a High School math teacher but also as a teacher of special education. One of his sons is Read More …

Art Costacoaching, Questioning and posing problems

A Note to the Habits of Mind Community

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  By Bena Kallick, Art Costa, and Allison Zmuda This is not the way any of us would have imagined the last weeks of school. Shuttering schools has caused families all around the world tremendous hardship as we all are doing our best to protect health, manage finances, balance schedules, and grieve loss Read More …

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Leading in a VUCA World

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  By Art Costa, Bena Kallick, and Allison Zmuda When we walked into school each day prior to COVID-19, we were accustomed to living in an unpredictable environment. Many of us have developed some of our greatest strengths through that unpredictability. Through the many challenges, we become more creative, inventive, Read More …

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Harnessing the Power of Metacognition in Fragile Times

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  By Art Costa, Bena Kallick, and Allison Zmuda As we are increasingly inundated with “great ideas,” free offers to use subscriptions to new tools, and mixed messages at the local, state, and national levels, how do we keep our head above water? We are getting seasick and need to Read More …

Allison Zmuda, Art Costa, Bena Kallickmetacognitive reflection, Thinking about your thinking (Metacognition)

Creating, Imagining and Innovating

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  by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick Creativity is a survival skill! The brain is always looking for something that it  didn’t know before, that’s not being taught to it, and to find a way to figure something out: that’s creative. Creative thinking has always been essential for human Read More …

Art Costa, Bena KallickConvergent thinking, creating imagining and innovating, Divergent thinking

Gathering Data Through All Senses

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  By Bena Kallick and Arthur L. Costa “Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.” Latin proverb Does this quotation shock you? Or should we say, shock your senses? Perhaps it is surprising to realize that your brain reduces the world to its elementary parts: photons Read More …

Art Costa, Bena KallickGathering data through all senses

Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision

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  by Arthur L. Costa, Ed.D. and Bena Kallick, Ph.D. “Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” Frank Outlaw Do you ever hear your friends, siblings Read More …

Art Costa, Bena KallickThinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision

Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations

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  by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick “Learning is the ability to make sense out of something you observe based on your past experience and being able to take that observation and associate it with meaning.” Ruth and Art Winter Intelligent human beings learn from reflecting on and making Read More …

Art Costa, Bena KallickApplying past knowledge to new situations

Questioning and Problem Posing

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  By Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick Co-Founders, Institute for Habits of Mind International “The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a Read More …

Art Costa, Bena KallickQuestioning and posing problems

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