By Art Costa

Are your students poised for success?

Need a clear roadmap for achieving the college and career readiness goals of the Common Core and 21st century learning? Grounded in Costa and Kallick's ground-breaking habits of mind work, and informed by current research, this book helps educators:

• Build consensus around what attributes and abilities all students should possess by the time they graduate
• Develop a common language around these dispositions so that students will encounter them daily
• Integrate these dispositions into curriculum design, instruction, and assessment
• Create school cultures that value dispositional learning

Features:

(1) Provides a clear roadmap for achieving the college and career readiness goals of the Common Core State Standards and 21st century learning in general.

(2) Grounded in Costa and Kallick's ground-breaking habits of mind work and informed by current research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

(3) Addresses how dispositions are to be addressed in curriculum design, instruction, and assessment.

(4) Guides readers through of an understanding of how to create and sustain school cultures that value dispositional learning.

(5) Ideally suited for use with Common Core implementation initiatives at the school and district level.