August 2014 – MIDAS (en)

Published On - August 24, 2014

Thinking Differently: From ‘Losers’ to Leaders ~ !

Jason Towne wrote a moving piece in Education Week about his project that helped school personnel and at risk students think differently about their potential. Jason was disturbed by a student who remarked “I guess I’m a loser. I’m no leader.” He was also dismayed that very few at risk stude...

Published On - August 21, 2014

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MI International School Launches MIDAS Project

Faculty at the Multiple Intelligences International School in Quezon City, Philippines have begun their journey to implement the MIDAS with their students. They started by having all teachers do their own profiles and then participated in a 90 minute Skype session. I am very happy that this dynamic...

Published On - August 17, 2014

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Thinking Differently… part 2.

Conventional approaches to reading instruction hammer at the fundamentals of basic reading skills – decoding, grammar, vocabulary, etc. – with an emphasis on regular testing to measure progress. Sadly, more than a decade of intense pressure for more testing and more reading instruction time has ...

Published On - August 12, 2014

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Thinking Differently . . . part 1.

Thinking differently… is the theme for the next several blog posts. Of course, this is implicit in the title of the Howard Gardner’s book that introduced the world to the multiple intelligences: Intelligence Reframed. In order to bring this idea into reality we need to think differently about th...