new+diagram+ideas

Team,

Doing a lot of reading and thinking this summer about the evolution of ISB21 and the next steps of putting it into practice. One great lecture I listened to was Howard Gardner explaining his new book "Five Minds for the Future". You can check the podcast out here: http://www.tvo.org/podcasts/bi/audio/BI_Full_20080621_HGardner_0x0_40k.mp3

It is really worth a listen.

I was thinking that one more way to increase buy-in would be to link our diagram to some established body of work or accepted framework connected to developing the whole student. How timely that Howard should revise his ideas and write a new book. When we first created the diagram we tried to come up with qualities/sensibilities that we wanted our students grow to have. They were reflective, creative, inquisitive, open minded, efficient, collaborative, flexible, tenacious. These qualities are all ones we want our students to have however the list is just one of many that we could have come up with. My idea is to trim the list a little and replace it with Gardner's five minds or as I see it, five lenses through which we should be enriching and teaching our students. It can't hurt that the father of "multiple intelligences" came up with it.

Thoughts?

If we do go this route then I have another suggestion.

Since Gardner has the "Creating mind" as one of focuses my next suggestions would be to remove "creators" from "Communicators and Creators". The idea being that in learning, communicating and collaborating we are always creating something and as a result it is embedded in everything we do. I can see value in keeping it as well to drive home the point but i'm just thinking here.

Thoughts?

see below for Gardner's diagram and the revised ISB21 logo.

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Justin