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Key ideas:

• Teaching and learning with learning power is different from other kinds of teaching and learning... 
• Looking for distinctions is a creative assist. 
• Creativity is the ability to look at something and see it in more than one way.
• But it doesn't mean you have to change everything you do. 
• Think in terms of looking for small adjustments in the way you teach. Encourage your students to do the same. 
• But…it is true that  learning power is more concerned with wholes than with parts. 
• It's concerned with thinking smart, feeling smart, acting smart. 
• Head smarts is not enough. There must also be know why, know what, know how, and know when.
• Becki often asks people to share what they learned that. (Don't tell me what you learned about).
• The idea is to get more concrete learnings that are made public. 
• These training sessions will feel different because they're concerned with teaching with learning power more than teaching about learning power. 
• In preparing these very training sessions we caught ourselves trying to cover the material only. Learning powered teaching and learning powered learning are about doing the learning "tasks" for specific reasons. Not because we're required to, but because we really want to know and learn, or because we are trying to make meaning. 
• It's helpful to ask people who know something about a subject
• In chapter 10 of Outsmarting IQ, David Perkins reveals something called the ABC system. 
• It's really just a series of questions having to do with Actions, Beliefs, and Concepts. 
• Actions are customs, rituals, activities -- what people people do.
• Beliefs are what people believe. What informs and motivates our action system. 
• Concepts are those big ideas, principles. What we know when we know our way around.
• So for Learning Power we ask: What do learning powered learners do? (The action question)
• And what are the beliefs surround Learning Power? (The beliefs question)
• And what are the concepts that one knows when one knows Learning Power well. 
• Let's take a quick look at the ABCs of learning power and see what it looks like.

• Actions. So what do learning powered teachers do?
• They are themselves lifelong learners. So they have an inherent interest in the qualities of other lifelong learners.
• We could almost run through the list of seven dimensions and describe the kinds of things they do. 
•               -      They are curious about things: 
• New ideas 
• Their own students
• About how a new technique might work
• About learning itself
• They try to develop new approaches that will encourage curiosity in their students.
• They like being creative and they express that creativity in the activities they develop for their classes.
• They create assignments that give students choices and opportunities to be creative themselves
• They constantly try to connect new learnings to things they already know. So there is this ongoing meaning making process that is operating all the time.
• One could also go through the list of thinking dispositions.
• They are open minded but skeptical. They aren't narrow and rigid but that doesn't mean they're gullible either. They like to test the theory out and let it prove itself. 
• But because they really want to know if it'll work, they do their best to give it a fair run.
• Because they are strategic thinkers who will change anything if it will bring them the results they want.

• Beliefs. And what do they believe?
• They believe that the values embodied in the seven dimensions of learning are worthwhile even though they themselves don't entirely meet them. 
• They know that none of us are perfect people. That's what changing and learning and growing is all about.
• They believe that whatever they want for themselves and their students begins with intentional thinking.
• They believe that if thinking leads the pack but  embraces feelings and desires and all those messy qualities found in people but produce effective action.
• They believe that this is not an easy road but that it can be an adventure both for themselves and their students.

• Concepts. What are the major concepts of Learning Power?
• Learnable intelligence which claims that we can learn to think smarter, feel smarter, and act smarter. If we can get our feelings, our thinking and acting all going in the same direction we can make things happen. (see the David Perkins quote) xxx David Perkins: "[The question of learnable intelligence] asks whether you or I or most anyone can learn to behave more intelligently." (Outsmarting IQ 5)
• Mindsets which is about the nurturing of the growth orientation, the belief that it's possible to learn, change and grow. This is fundamental to what we're trying to do with students.
• Dispositions which are tendencies or inclinations. They aren't the same thing as habits but they're closely related. One might say that the highest form of teaching is teaching that is directed at and succeeds in changing what people actually think, do and feel. 
• Making Thinking Visible. A high level metaphor that suggests that -- if we are to learn to think better - we must overcome the central fact about thinking. That it is mostly silent and happens invisibly within our minds. It needs to come out to get better.