Powerful thinking and learning is:

• Ako:  Where we learn from each other. 

• Connected:  Knowing who we are and how we connect.

• Contextualised:  Learning builds on and challenges what is known, leading to the unknown.

• Environment:  A space where learning is valued, nurtured, and celebrated, where learners feel safe to fail and succeed.  A space where learning processes are visible through different modes of communication.

• Expectations:  Having a clearly communicated purpose for learning.  Focussing on the value of thinking and learning as outcomes, alongside the completion of work.

• Feedback/forward:  Learners evaluating work to determine next, or new learning steps.

• Framework:  Enabling self-regulation, self-belief, and taking responsibility for learning outcomes.  Learners see that outcomes depend on their efforts to generate, relate and/or extend ideas.

• Language:  Using a common language of learning to communicate and critique thinking.

• Thinking about thinking:  Self-awareness of knowing how, and when, to use strategies for learning.