Teachers, students, administrators, parents, and community members become involved as colleagues helping to transform their school into an exciting place of learning for all children and the adults who work there. Recognizing that every child has talent and that children learn by doing, the Different Ways of Knowing curriculum provides clear and flexible guidelines for learner-centered classroom practice. Interdisciplinary, nongraded modules integrate deep knowledge in social studies and history themes with mathematics, science, and the visual, performing, literary, and media arts. In addition to becoming skilled in the use of language, children become literate in the symbol systems of the arts, mathematics, social studies, and science. They also become skilled in interacting with others, and gain confidence in themselves as problem solvers and learners.
Learners are sensitive to sounds and rhythms.
They are adept at speaking, reading, writing, and listening, and they easily comprehend language. Learners are sensitive to rhythm, pitch, and timbre. They appreciate, interpret, and compose sounds. Learners easily discern patterns and relationships, they create reasoning chains, and analyze and manipulate numerical and symbolic information. Learners are sensitive to images and forms.