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Formerly a SkyLight publicationTeaching for Intelligence II brings together the top minds in education to discuss the issues surrounding intelligence. Taken directly from the 1999 Teaching for Intelligence Conference, experts discuss such topics as: Unleashing the Power of Perceptual Change Learning... More

A thousand things are unspoken in schools every day, and the lack of truth telling can bring about an ineffective status quo and result in our students not getting the education they deserve. For most educators, confronting colleagues with truths about ineffective practices or potentially harmful be... More

" Are we preparing students for a life of tests or for the tests of life?"Educators agree that the characteristics of self-directed learners are traits that students will need to succeed in school and in life. Accurately assessing the skills and behaviors of self-directed learning is essential in de... More

""Within this robust collection, the reader is soon privy to a noble and notable vision of schooling in which mindfulness permeates the metaphorical walls of the school and all of its structural components: the curriculum, the instruction, and the reflective practices of those immersed in the vision... More

""How will the traditional skillset of the industrial era have to be expanded for successful workers and citizens in the knowledge era? How must the traditional education process be transformed? Two cornerstones to the new system of education will be elevating the learning process to comparable stan... More