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Washington, D.C.

Conference on Teaching Excellence

June 28–30
Washington, D.C.

Get up-to-date on recent revelations about best practices in the classroom, how to make them routine in every grade and subject, and how to scale them systemwide. 

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Habits of Mind Across the Curriculum

Edited by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick

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Chapter 13. Creating Curriculum with Healthy Habits of Mind at the Heart

by Michael Goldfine

I believe that a curriculum centered on nurturing healthy mental habits will better help students succeed in school and in life. In this chapter I describe a successful eight-week-long poetry course that I have been developing over the course of 14 years to promote the Habits of Mind.

As a young teacher, if my class paid attention and looked engaged, I felt successful. In my first 10 years, it happened at times. Now, after 20 years, I look into the eyes of an individual student and ask myself, "Has she learned something today that really matters?"

 

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