Schools are about learning, and the Habits of Mind offer a set of valued
intellectual dispositions toward which teachers and students consciously
and consistently work. The habits provide guidelines for a process for
interaction. Loyalty to a process for interaction is as significant as loyalty
to the decisions that are a result of that process. We seek to operate in a
world that is civil, that respects individuality and differences, and that provides
a path for consistency, not uniformity. Senge (1990) suggests that a
culture is people thinking together. As individuals share meaning, they
negotiate and build a culture. As groups become more skillful in employing
the Habits of Mind, the habits create a renegotiation of the organization
by pervading the value system. This change results in the changing
of practices and beliefs of the entire organization. By employing the
Habits of Mind, the group mind illuminates issues, solves problems, and