...even though we had lost 6 weeks of school...our students still performed as top performers in the state... we were then a Level 5, the best in the state, superior...read more...
The Effects of Thinking Maps on Reading Scores
Doctoral Dissertation Summary: A highly significant correlation was found between the use of Thinking Maps and reading comprehension scores of college students using the Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test.....
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21st Century Life Long Thinking Skills
Listen to a superintendent and student on video share their insights about life long thinking skills using Thinking Maps to organize students' thinking, and their thinking.
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The Filmmakers
Keith DeCristo, director and producer of the documentary Minds of Mississippi, is a free lance still photographer and independent filmmaker based in New York City.
Minds of Mississippi
The Pass Christian Public Schools received a grant last year from Thinking Foundation to document their incredible story. The story of “The Pass” began before Katrina, continued as their whole community was “wiped off the map” in 2005, and has been sustained at the highest levels by staying focused on the map for improving students’ thinking... read more
...Faced with a major natural disaster (Hurricane Katrina) the district was faced with what could have appeared to be an insurmountable task—the task of rebuilding a learning community when virtually all was lost. Students and staff came together with the common thread of what was left to them to continue their pursuit of excellence: Thinking Maps...read additional writing and Suzanne Ishee poem...
Thinking Maps
in the Classroom
Peek into Norm Schuman's 6th grade social studies classroom...
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Quotes from Principal Investigators
Thinking Maps were there before the storm and were there after the
storm... They are a part of the dialogue for learning. They provided the continuity we needed after the storm...This tells you about the strength and quality of our school district.
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Student Successes with Thinking Maps®The Thinking Maps® program takes full advantage of the natural proclivity of the brain to see and think visually. The authors describe Thinking Maps as a language of visual tools grounded in the thinking process, a most neurally apt description. This book provides an invaluable way to help our students truly understand and retain the concepts behind the facts, and to do this in an exciting and motivating way.
Pat Wolfe, Author, Building the Reading Brain
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Visual Tools for Transforming Information Into Knowledge
This is the most comprehensive book on graphic organizers, Thinking Maps®, and graphic software programs. Find out why visual tools and mapping are the key tools for 21st century learning. Look at student and teacher work and review test results from around the country.
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What are Thinking Maps®?
Thinking Maps are eight fundamental thinking skills defined and animated by maps, and introduced as a common visual language for thinking and learning across whole learning communities. From the beginning, the focus of the work using Thinking Maps has been on all teachers immediately training all of their students across their whole school to become fluent with the tools.
read Thinking Maps as a Transformational Language for Learning (PDF file)
learn more about Thinking Maps on the Thinking Maps website
