Intellectual Development

Our students will learn key academic skills - like reading, writing and math - to encompass the knowledge and processes associated with intellectual development. As learners and meaning-makers, students take subject-specific concepts and content and transform them into a new understanding. 

Goals

  • Improve student success in literacy. ​
  • Improve student success in numeracy. ​
Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms is a framework that creates conditions for students to engage in genuine problem-solving rather than rote learning. It emphasizes strategies like random groupings, working on vertical non-permanent surfaces, and using rich tasks to make thinking visible and collaborative. The goal is to build a classroom culture where students think deeply, reason, and learn through exploration and discussion. Building Thinking Classrooms

Peter Liljedahl’s Building Thinking Classrooms is a framework that creates conditions for students to engage in genuine problem-solving rather than rote learning. It emphasizes strategies like random groupings, working on vertical non-permanent surfaces, and using rich tasks to make thinking visible and collaborative. The goal is to build a classroom culture where students think deeply, reason, and learn through exploration and discussion.