This Web site will provide the resources to support your understanding of what are the Habits of Mind and who are the people behind the Habits of Mind series. This site also provides information about the development resources available to educators and community leaders seeking assistance in implementing Habits of Mind in schools and classrooms. Sample lesson plans, units, and learning activities are available as well as names of schools, school districts and business organizations that have implemented the Habits of Mind. Links to other supportive people and organizations also are provided.

Our mission is to build an international network of people in schools, homes and businesses that are dedicated to sharing the vision of the Habits of Mind as a foundation for building thought-full learning communities.

Noted educators, Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick, define and describe 16 types of intelligent behavior in their four book series, Habits of Mind: A Developmental Series, published in 2000 by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development in Alexandria, VA. The series includes:

Book I: Discovering and Exploring Habits of Mind				Book II: Activating and Engaging Habits of Mind
Book III: Assessing and Reporting on Habits of Mind				Book IV: Integrating and Sustaining Habits of Mind

Habits of Mind aid students in school and adults in everyday life as they are challenged by problems, dilemmas, paradoxes, and enigmas for which the solutions are not immediately apparent. Drawing on the Habits of Mind means knowing how to behave intelligently when you don't know the answers. It means not only having information, but also knowing how to act on it.

Read what educators have written about Habits of Mind: A Developmental Series:

"I have just finished reading Activating and Engaging Habits of Mind. I have been a high school/middle school math teacher for 23 years. I have taught in districts ranging in size from large urban areas to small rural towns. I have taught courses from 6th basic math to A. P. Calculus. Thank you for this book. No matter the size district kids want to learn. You have said for me what I largely have felt. The Habits of Mind are exactly what is needed." --Dave Williams, Crane, Texas

"I was very excited to receive the first book in your Habits of Mind series this past spring. Since then I have purchased the next two books. My husband and I are elementary teachers in addition to educational consultants in the areas of multiple intelligences, emotional intelligence, and gifted eduction, so you can imagine how inspiring your series is to the two of us!" --Paula Wilkes, Ph.D., Eugene, Oregon

Working together to promote Habits of Mind in schools, businesses, homes and communities since 1992,

Arthur L. Costa, Ed.D. is an Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University, Sacramento and Co-Director of the Institute for Intelligent Behavior in El Dorado Hills, California, and

Bena Kallick, Ph.D. is a private consultant providing services to school districts, state departments of education, professional organizations and public sector agencies throughout the United States and abroad.

All materials in the http://www.habits-of-mind.net Web site not specifically identified as being reprinted or secured from other sources are Copyright © 2000–2008 by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick. Permission to download and make copies for classroom or community use is granted. Reproducing or distributing any material from this Web site for commercial use, however, must have written permission from the authors.

Page last revised January 19, 2008.