All Saints’ Honors College students engaged in a dynamic class exercise where they embarked to observe, analyze, understand, and communicate about systems. As a Visiting Scholar, Grant Lichtman spent the day at All Saints’ and led Honors College students in this exercise based on his book, The Falconer. The book serves as as a yearlong scaffold for development of student’s skills in questioning, problem-finding, systems thinking, problem solving, and strategic and creational thinking. In the video, ninth graders present their “what if” questions that challenge us to think differently about education and learning.
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