Thinking Maps as a transformational language for learning / David Hyerle -- Why and how Thinking Maps work : a language of brain and mind / Kimberly M. Williams -- Leveling the playing field for all students / Bonnie Singer -- Tools for integrating theories and differentiating practice / Alan Cooper -- Closing the "gap" by connecting culture, language, and cognition / Yvette Jackson -- Maps for the road to reading comprehension : bridging reading text structures to writing prompts / Thomasina DePinto Piercy and David Hyerle -- Empowering students from thinking to writing / Jane Buckner -- The challenge of high-stakes testing in middle school mathematics / Janie B. MacIntyre -- Thinking like a scientist / Lou-Anne Conroy and David Hyerle -- Thinking technology / Daniel Cherry -- A first language for thinking in a multilingual school / Stefanie R. Holzman -- Feeder patterns and feeding the flame at Blalack Middle School / Edward V. Chevallier -- Becoming a thinking school / Gill Hubble -- Stories from Mississippi : results from college to kindergarten / Marjann Kalehoff Ball -- The Singapore experience : student-centered fluency / Ho Po Chun -- Inviting explicit thinking / Sarah Curtis -- Coaching and supervising reflective practice / Kathy Ernst -- Thinking Maps : a language for leading and learning / Larry Alper -- Bifocal assessment in the cognitive age : Thinking Maps for assessing content learning and cognitive processes / David Hyerle and Kimberly M. Williams.