We’ve also recently hosted the Education Review Office (inspectors!) who loved how the children could see the positive impacts of Habits of Mind on their learning. They were particularly impressed by 5-year-old Oscar, who said, when they interviewed him amongst a group of 12 mixed-age students and asked what he would change at this school if he were the principal: “I’d make sure that everybody learns how to think.” If that’s not a fantastic advertisement for the value of Habits of Mind, what is?
—Marty Hantz, Haumoana School