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Schools and organizations nationwide are working with The Art of Learning Project in new and exciting ways.

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Flagler Palm Coast High School IB Program

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PALM COAST, FL. Diane Tomko added another International Baccalaureate program to our list of collaborations at the Flagler Palm Coast High School. She shared the book with her 36 senior Theory of Knowledge students; offered a book study program for parents, held a literary lunch with freshman students in her Inquiry Skills class, during which they discussed sections of The Art of Learning; and used the book in a Socratic Seminar with her multi-age Gifted Studies class.

Says Diane: “Sharing and collaborating within the educational field directly affects student learning. I want to try harder to make my students thirst! Anything…

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The Lang School

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NEW YORK, NY. Set to open in 2010, Lang is a progressive, independent elementary school in New York City for high-potential and gifted children with ADHD, language-based learning differences, anxiety, and sensory processing challenges. Josh Waitzkin is working closely with the school’s consultants and teachers to pilot educational strategies based on The Art of Learning with the intention of spreading the approach in related academic communities. The founder, Micaela Bracamonte, will author a blog for The Art of Learning Project site that will track the development of this new school and its integration of The Art of Learning principles into its various curricula.

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The University of Iowa Belin-Blank Center

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IOWA CITY, IA. Within the University of Iowa’s College of Education, the Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development empowers and serves the gifted community through exemplary leadership programs, research, and advocacy. Administrator for Inventiveness Programs and Rural Schools Programs, Dr.Clar Baldus, has launched a state-wide outreach program to share The Art of Learning with students (future educators), teachers, counselors, and administrators.

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PS 47: The John Randolph School

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BRONX, NEW YORK. Larry Spitzer, a social studies; English; and chess club leader at this Title 1 elementary school, will be staging a reception for the 25 5th-grade members of his chess club and their parents. He will present The Art of Learning principles to them, do a walk-through of the live The Art of Learning Project website, hold a discussion, and give them copies of the book to read on their own and with their children. Spitzer’s emphasis will be on giving them an understanding of how Josh Waitzkin’s grasp of how to learn is what led him to where he…

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