The Thinking Friends®

A current collaboration with Fresno Unified School District has been piloting Thinking Friends® initially with PreK-1st grades and now expanded to grades 2-4 as part of the The CLEAR Model collaboration. Robert developed the on-site demonstrations and professional learning communities model for the project which also included use of Thinking Friends® with principals and coaches professional development. Thinking Friends® are part of the NeuraPoints® cognitive code for early childhood. NeuraPoints® are five fundamental cognitive patterns that the human brain uses to process information. It’s the world’s first cognitive code to visually connect, integrate and share thinking patterns.

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The Thinking Friends® are eight farm animals having all sorts of fun learning and figuring things out.  Just like our children who are always thinking!  Each animal has its own unique personality based on of a fundamental thinking skill and style.  For example, you can see above that Snakey Sequences, Kitty Categorizes, and Cowsie thinks about causes and effects.  Doggie Definer just keeps “digging around” for more information! 

Farmer Framer helps the Friends “think about their thinking” — the important process of meta-cognition.  Farmer Framer is the executive of the farm, making sure that everyone is thinking and working together.