Central Park East Secondary School in New York uses these overarching questions to focus attention on habits of mind in every class and every subject:
- From whose viewpoint are we seeing or reading or hearing?
- From what angle or perspective?
- How do we know when we know?
- What’s the evidence, and how reliable is it?
- How are things, events, or people connected to each other?
- What is the cause and what is the effect?
- How do they fit together?
- What’s new and what’s old?
- Have we run across this idea before?
- So what?
- Why does it matter?
- What does it all mean?