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We will keep adding materials here that we think can help those who are planning to implement LiD or who are already underway with the program. We continue to develop additional support materials. As with most things, the beginning is often the hardest part. LiD does require some preparation. Careful attention to the initial ceremony, for example, will pay off in students’ seriousness in beginning the project and their continued concern with it. And, of course, planning the program with care is always worth the time spent when it comes to putting it into practice. We will continue to add a number of documents here to help with these processes. We will organize the items we have currently developed into three main categories: Planning; The First Year; and Subsequent Years. You can read on-line or download any of the following: |
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PlanningCurrently we have only a few discussions of the Planning phase. We are putting just one item here for now but you will also find significant amounts about the planning phase in Linda Holmes’s document below. Soon we will add further items on planning.
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Subsequent Years“Some operating principles”. This document offers advice about how to engage students’ imaginations in their topics, and how to keep accommodate support for the students as they get older and change the nature of their interest in their topics. Click here. “Building the portfolio.” A discussion of the practical steps to help the student build the portfolio, and advice about the form and development of portfolios. Click here |
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Objections & ResponsesThis is a rather lengthy discussion of the pros and cons of the LiD program. Or at least it is an attempt to waylay a number of concerns about the applicability of the program, and respond to what are the commonest objections people have made or that we can imagine. Click Here |
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What students say about LiD
NEW
LiDKiT Ready!
“LiDKiT: Resources for Implementing the Learning in Depth Program.”
The LiDKiT has all the resources we provide for implementing Learning in Depth in a classroom or school. You can order it from Pacific Educational Press.Check out the additions to:
● Teacher/School Resources pages, where we have added examples of the questions or interesting statements that can be given to students with their topics at the opening ceremony. Also some pictures of students with their portfolios—some in folders, some in boxes.
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Now Available!
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"The Learning in Depth project has brought to our students a completely new relationship to learning that has been surprising in its depth and quality. After seeing Learning in Depth at work in our school community, I know this has been a critical, missing element. It has proven to be everything we imagined (and much more we didn't) when we heard about Kieran Egan's remarkable vision.”—Sheri Dunton, K-3 Teacher, Corbett Charter School.
“Learning in Depth outlines a bold and stimulating curricular innovation designed to improve the quality of schooling from kindergarten through high school. The book’s key idea is certainly worthy of serious debate and continued experimentation. For that reason alone, I commend its suggestive proposal to the attention of thoughtful educators everywhere.”—Philip W. Jackson, David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus University of Chicago.
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