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Newsletter Issue 7 • November 2014
The latest international updates and developments from TSI
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Divider WELCOME to the 7th issue of the TSI enewsletter, where we share exciting developments in the world of thinking and hear from schools and educators involved in teaching students how to thrive in this age of information overload.

In this issue, we include details about the new must have resource, the Growing Thinking Students in Thinking Schools LUMIBook; we have information about TSI's exciting new collaboration with SAPERE; hear from a thinking preparatory school in London - and there's more...

Finally, Richard Cummins, TSI CEO, gives an overview of current projects underway in the Thinking Schools network - see here

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'Just take time…you will succeed'
Lisa Lowe, former head of Notting Hill Preparatory Lower School shares their 'thinking about thinking' journey
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' ...against a backdrop of the constricting demands of curriculum planning and delivery ... we were jettisoned into a challenging opportunity to consider the transformational nature of cognitive approaches to learning.'
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TSI and SAPERE join forces
A new collaboration and exciting development...
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Roger Sutcliffe, TSI Consultant and P4C specialist, celebrates the exciting new partnership between TSI and SAPERE, and considers the benefits and value of such a collaboration.
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Thinker and Shaper
Use it - don't lose it ...
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'Throughout our lives we possess the ability to learn and unlearn' in this article Ged Murphy considers the importance of understanding how our brains work ...
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A Rich Seam
How New Pedagogies Find Deep Learning - A Review
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This excellent paper provides much that chimes with what the thinking schools movement and Thinking Schools International believe in and which underpins the wish to facilitate transformational change within learning communities...
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Meet Chicky Comparer!
Chicky Comparer thinking strength is comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences between different people, animals, places and things.
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In our last issue we introduced you to Snakey Sequencer, in this Newsletter we introduce you to Chicky Comparer, another of the eight Thinking Friends animal characters, living life on a farm.  Each animal has the personality, respectively, of a single fundamental thinking/cognitive skill  - Chicky Comparer's speciality is comparing and contrasting.
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**NEW** Growing Thinking Students in Thinking Schools LUMIBook
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An invaluable, high quality, interactive resource for any school taking on a whole school approach to the teaching of thinking ... read more
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David Hyerle's thinkabout blog - To Africa ...
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I left for Africa about 10 days ago - there was much “fear in the frame” as I was leaving... read more
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TSI in Norway - see here for new developments
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'Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right.  Henry Ford
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Thinking Schools in Action! Watch video below ...
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Malaysian Delegates review the Thinking Skills Conference 2014
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DIARY DATES 2015
Thinking Differently About .... 25 February 2015, Kingston. More details coming soon

Philosophy for Children for Thinking Schools 19 March 2015, Reading. Find out more

International Thinking Skills Conference 15 & 16 June 2015

See here for more TSI Events

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Spacer An update from Richard Cummins
We are all very pleased that the new interactive on-line Lumibook, developed in partnership with School Improvement Network (SINET) will be available at the end of November.  Details will be sent to all our registered members.  The Lumibook is written by Dr David Hyerle and the majority of the videos which are embedded in the book are of students and teachers in UK schools... Read More

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