"Developing Connective Leadership: Successes with Thinking Maps®" by Kim Williams, Larry Alper and David Hyerle If you want us to send you a digital copy of ...

arriving in theaters near you. Maybe Netflix would pick it up. Unfortunately, all we have is the certainly unofficial "Thinking Maps Trailer" with thanks to ...

by way of a major university study focused on past performance of nearly 70 schools. The Effects of Thinking Maps in Raising Student Achievement: A Retrospec...

The International Conference on Thinking, ICOT-2020, where David Hyerle will Keynote, will take place June 15th-18th in Johannesburg, South Africa. Time to v...

Many of us believe in the research by Dr. Carol Dweck on “changing mindsets”, but what does this really mean? For me it means that EVERY student has been dir...

Animating Thinking Maps® with our New Program Thinking Friends© Thinking Foundation funded the early piloting and production of the early childhood Thinking ...

There is so much political turmoil about immigration these days--and tragedies abound--and are lived every day. And, while cultural, political, and moral, th...

Landing on the moon is one thing, but actually improving reading comprehension both quantitatively (reading test scores) and qualitatively (daily classroom p...

Who is YOUR Thinking Maps Champion??? Following years of studying the most successful Thinking Maps projects, it became clear that one of the "secret ingredi...

How do YOU help parents and caregivers learn about Thinking Maps at YOUR school??? At PS 111X, Principal Celina Gutierrez knows how important it is for paren...

Thinking Foundation supports networking and sharing of best practices across Thinking Schools around the world. What would it look like if educators had a p...

When Thinking Skills became Popular: WHY? And WHAT NOW? During the mid-1980s “thinking” or “thinking skills” became popular in schools. While this sounds odd...

Lucia Mar Unified School District is the largest school district in San Luis Obispo County, covering more than 550 square miles and serving a student populat...

What is a Thinking School? For Students, what difference has the process of becoming a "Thinking School" made for them? What were some of the challenges you ...

When I visited Concourse Village School year before last --and observed classrooms-- I was deeply moved by the vision of the principal, the clarity of questi...

West Belden is an urban K-8 charter school serving a high-poverty, high- minority population in Chicago. Thinking Maps were implemented and supported over ma...

Our Brains are not designed for…. Downloads? I just downloaded a book today. OF course even 20 years ago the idea of loading a book onto an iPAD along with a...

Mapping is a rich synthesis of thinking processes, mental strategies, techniques and technologies, and knowledge that enables humans to investigate unknowns,...

HELLO to all of our friends and followers of Thinking Foundation ! Back in 2008, just as I was thinking about how to follow Dr. Art Costa’s vision of “School...

With all of the cognitive/neuroscience research coming out over the past few decades, it is now commonly accepted that thought and language (not JUST languag...