Your Go-To Guides for Building Thinking Classrooms
Quick Guides to Thinking Classrooms: Practical Strategies for Engaging and Thoughtful Learning
Building on the success of Creating Thinking Classrooms, these concise, high-impact guides offer ready-to-use strategies, examples, and templates to support creative, collaborative, and critical thinking across all grades and subjects.
Explore the Quick Guides Series
- Assessing Mathematical Thinking: A Focus on Reasoning Competencies Learn More
- Building a Community of Thinkers Learn More
- Framing Critical Inquiry Questions and Tasks Learn More
- Supporting All Learners: Creating the Conditions for Inclusive Classrooms Learn More
- Teaching Students to Use Criteria Learn More
- Using Thoughtbooks to Sustain Inquiry Learn More
What Educators are Saying
“These guides are my go-to when I need a quick idea or a simple way to strengthen a lesson. They make critical thinking easy to work into any lesson without adding extra planning."
“The Quick Guides have helped me bring teachers together from different subject areas to collaborate and share ideas, while finding new ways to engage students in deeper thinking. The easy-to-use strategies and templates make it simple to build on the good work they are already doing in ways that get students thinking more deeply and engaged in their learning.”