Scaling-up Higher Order Thinking: Demonstrating a Paradigm for Deep Educational Change

This open access book addresses the evasive problem of why truly effective educational innovation on a wide scale is so difficult to achieve, and what leaders may do about this.

Examining the case of system—wide reform processes centering on teaching a thinking—rich curriculum, it discusses general issues pertaining to implementing deep, large—scale changes in the core of learning and instruction. The book emphasizes challenges related to professional development, assessment, achievement g...