What We Want for Kids

What We Want for Kids

(at the Lincoln Community School )

Our school's essential purpose is to insist that all of our students learn to use their minds well.

Our essential purpose is evident when:

Students internalize "habits of mind" by regularly asking such questions as:

· What did you notice?

· What's your evidence?

· How and where does what you've learned fit in?

· Could things have been otherwise?

· What difference does it make?

Students engage actively in their learning through exploration, observation direct experience, and self-reflection.

Students exercise self direction, perseverance, and intellectual curiosity.

Students make connections, transfer knowledge to new situations, and create work that is meaningful to themselves and others.

Students have ample time to practice, synthesize, and reflect on what they're learning.

Students engage regularly in problems and experiences they view as real and relevant, and articulate what is important to them.

Students make choices about their learning.

Students demonstrate publicly what they learn.

Students are integral members of the school and greater communities and use resources to recognize, explore, and respond to current issues.