All Learning Is Connected

 

Louise’s programs show teachers how to integrate literacy skills in meaningful ways and how to develop students’ critical thinking skills. Think! Like Socrates and Think! Like a Writer will incorporate the three major literacy shifts of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards: 

 

1. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational texts

2. Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text

3. Regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary 

 

Investing in Teachers = Brighter Students

 

Investment in high quality professional development is the best investment a school system can make because the single most important factor in any child’s education is what his teachers know and can do. 

 

The extended engagement of the unique three-day Think! Like Socrates program and the one-day Think! Like a Writer program will provide deep learning for teachers and result in better thinking for students.