Partners

TSI is continually developing partnerships with like minded organisations to keep building on the breadth of the thinking schools network and it’s depth of experience.

The Cognitive Education Centre, University of Exeter, working in partnership with Kestrel Education, developed the whole school approach to the teaching of thinking.  The following video of Professor Bob Burden addresses the role of Exeter University and Thinking Schools International.

Thinking Maps, Inc. is an educational consulting and publishing company specializing in providing professional staff development for K-12 schools across the country. Their primary focus is the implementation, on a school-wide and district-wide basis, of Thinking Maps®, a common visual language for learning within and across disciplines.

SAPERE is the internationally recognized educational charity that promotes Philosophy for Children (P4C) in the UK. Based in Oxford, it was established in 1993. Our 60 committed, professional trainers provide specialist training for teachers and all school personnel. SAPERE provides training at three levels and supports a growing network of P4C trainers and practitioners across the UK. Philosophy for Children (P4C) is a powerful teaching method that boosts children’s thinking and learning skills. SAPERE’s acclaimed P4C training courses work successfully with any age group or ability and have a positive impact with teachers and learners across the whole school.

Habits of Mind are defined as the dispositions that are skillfully and mindfully employed by characteristically successful people when confronted with problems, the solutions to which are not immediately apparent. The Habits of Mind have been adopted by many many schools from all over the world as a way of clarifying educational goals for students. They provide a framework and common language for students, teachers, school leadership, parents and the wider school community to share when discussing and planning for the development of student thinking.

Mind Lab is one of the world’s leading providers of thinking skills, social skills and emotional intelligence development of children in schools. The programme combines a fully developed, age appropriate curriculum centred around unique board games, to teach thinking skills, social skills and emotional intelligence to students from 4-18, and an innovative teaching methodology which empowers teachers to apply the best of educational theory in their daily practice. The programme develops skills such as problem solving, planning, verbal and non-verbal reasoning, learning from mistakes, self-esteem, social awareness, tolerance, collaboration, independent learning  and perseverance, to name a few. Read more….

 Aspire is a University of Exeter transformational approach to school change. It brings together the whole organisation – students, staff, parents and the wider community to co-research and talk about learning in meaningful ways. It provides a framework to work together to plan improvements, to put the plans into action, and to evaluate the impact of the results. Aspire encourages everyone to become a researcher. It promotes conversation and collaboration. It helps schools to ask questions and to find their own answers. Aspire will help to make your school become more democratic, more inclusive and more effective. 

“Creating a Thinking School using the Pop4Schools programme…where Pop Music and Education meet”. Pop4Schools is a unique, innovative education resource that uses the pop music industry as a vehicle to engage pupils’ learning in key curriculum subjects. Far more than teaching music alone, subjects covered with Pop4Schools can include literacy, maths, science, ICT, art, history, geography and PSHCE. Read more...

Picture the Music Create is a multi sensory teaching tool that motivates and inspires creativity. Pictures and music fires the imagination. Picture the Music Create generates hundreds of ideas that can be used for creative writing, story telling, drama, music composition – in fact anything that requires originality as a starting point.