Ron Ritchhart - The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Practices to Engage and Empower All Learners

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The authors offer a powerful vision of learning wedded to a clear and actionable framework. But, best of all, they bring the nuts and bolts of teaching to life with dozens of pictures of practices drawn from teachers and learners around the world.

David Perkins, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Graduate School of Education

It is a rare thing to find a book so beautifully accessible to the classroom teacher while simultaneously engaging the reader in discussions of the theoretical and research basis behind the practice. I can't wait to share this powerful resource with teachers it is a must have in the professional library of the contemporary educator.

Kath Murdoch, International Education Consultant, Author of The Power of Inquiry.

In The Power of Making Thinking Visible, Ron Ritchart and Mark Church illuminate how teachers can deepen learning by igniting student curiosity and engagement. It is a must read for educators across every grade level and subject area. The helpful advice and researchtested practices shared in this book truly have the power to transform schools and classrooms.

Madeleine Hewitt, Executive Director, Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools

PRACTICES TO ENGAGE AND EMPOWER ALL LEARNERS

Ron Ritchhart
Mark Church

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Names: Ritchhart, Ron, author. | Church, Mark, 1970 author.

Title: The power of making thinking visible : practices to engage and empower all learners / Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church.

Description: First edition. | San Francisco : JosseyBass, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019052277 (print) | LCCN 2019052278 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119626046 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119626190 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119626213 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Thought and thinkingStudy and teaching. | Critical thinkingStudy and teaching. | Cognition in children. | Harvard Project Zero.

Classification: LCC LB1590.3 .R3624 2020 (print) | LCC LB1590.3 (ebook) | DDC 370.15/2dc23

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FIRST EDITION

This book is the story of our learning as researchers about the power of making thinking visible (MTV) through years of research. But it is more than that. This book also brings together the voices of hundreds of teachers from around the world who joined us in this journey. These teachers were willing to take risks and try out new routines still under development. They shared their successes and failures with us, pushing us to explore new possibilities. Through their teaching practice and their individual inquiry into their students' learning, these teachers propelled our collective learning as a community. There are too many of these to mention by name. We do want to mention a few though who have taken extra efforts to document, reflect, share, discuss, and review their practice with us. We hope that our representation in this book does them justice.

Our research and development work on visible thinking began in 2000 with the support of the Carpe Vitam foundation and included work in Sweden as well as several international schools in Europe. Since then the number of international schools with whom we engage has steadily grown and we continue to learn from this diverse group of global educators. Specifically, we want to thank Tom Heilman and Emily Veres at Washington International School; Joyce Lourenco Pereira at Atlanta International School; David Riehl at Munich International School; Nora Vermeulin at International School of Luxembourg; Mary Kelly at International School of Amsterdam; Walter Basnight at American International School of Chennai; Kendra Daly and Gene Quezada at International School of Beijing; Regina Del Carmen at Chadwick International School; Chris Fazenbaker, Marina Goodyear, and Tahireh Thampi at American Embassy School in New Delhi; Julie Frederick at American International School of Lusaka; Laura Fried and Paul Miller at Academia Cotopaxi in Quito; Matt McGrady at American Community School of Dubai; and Caitlin McQuaid at KAUST Garden Elementary School in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

In 2005 we began what would turn out to be 13years of partnership with Bialik College in Melbourne, Australia. Many of the stories in Making Thinking Visible (2011) emerged from this very productive collaboration. Since then the ideas have spread widely throughout Australia based on these efforts. Many other schools have now taken up MTV practices and moved them forward in rich and exciting ways. At Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School, Nina Bilewicz has nurtured these ideas and supported teachers to take risks and try out new practices in their teaching. We have benefited from these efforts and have been able to learn from the deep reflective work of Sheri McGrath, Amanda Stephens, Steve Davis, Darrel Cruse, Lee Crossley, Kate Dullard, and Peter Bohmer at the school. Similar efforts were supported by the Association of Independent Schools of South Australia and at Wilderness School in Adelaide where many teachers, including Alison Short, eagerly tried out routines and put them into practice. Others we wish to thank include Sharonne Blum at Bialik College, Michael Upton at Holy Trinity Primary, Nick Boylan at St. Francis Xavier Primary, Kathy Green at Australian Catholic University, Alice Vigors at Our Lady of the Rosary Primary, Pennie Baker at St. Philip's Christian College, Wayne Cox at Newington College, Alisha Janssen at Pacific Lutheran College, and Amy Richardson at Redlands School.