The Knowledge Building Gallery is a collection of concrete tools and strategies for teachers and educational leaders to use to support KB work. Grounded in Knowledge Building theory, this resource features innovations for practice created by and for new and experienced Knowledge Building practitioners. It also includes tools and resources from excellent resources such as Natural Curiosity (2011), and The Learning Exchange (www.thelearningexchange.ca) that provide tips on instructional strategies that support Knowledge Building theory and pedagogy. The practices and ideas described here are adaptable to different subjects and Grade levels, with the goal of engaging each and every learner as a valued member of a Knowledge Building community.

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Introduction -- Knowledge Building: The Theory in a Nutshell -- So What is Knowledge Building? -- Growing a knowledge building culture -- Culture and Climate -- The 12 KB Principles: A Framework for Practice and Classroom Norms -- 12 KB Principles: Indicators and “Listen Fors” -- 16 12 KB Principles: Some Guiding Reflection Questions -- 12 KB Principles: Group Activity -- 12 KB Principles and Indicators -- Why KB Can Reach Each and Every Student -- What Does a KB Community Look Like in the Classroom -- The Most Important Elements of a KB Classroom -- The Teacher’s Role in a KB Classroom -- Collaborating as a KB Community: Strategies for the Classroom -- Getting started with knowledge building: Getting Started: Engaging Real Ideas, Authentic Problems -- Provocations and Hooks to Ignite Knowledge Building -- Select Resources to Support KB Provocations and Student Wonderings -- Inspiring Promising Questions and Ideas -- Gaining and sustaining momentum: Gaining Momentum: Knowledge Building Discourse -- Knowledge Building Scaffolds -- Expanding the Topic: Talking and Thinking Like an Expert -- Knowledge Leadership Scaffolds -- Knowledge Building Circles -- Expanding the Topic: Excerpt of a Grade 2 KB Circle Talk -- Knowledge Building Gallery / Leading Student Achievement: Networks for Learning -- Sustaining Momentum: Idea-Centered Classrooms -- Wonder Walls -- KB Walls -- How Do I Start a KB Wall? -- The Use of Knowledge Forum -- What Other Practices Can Support My Students in Authentic Knowledge Work? -- Working with Ideas: Strategies for Students -- Group Reflection, or “Meta-Talk” in KB ideas: Strategies for students -- Case Study (Grade 6): Does Every Living Thing Need Oxygen? -- Knowledge building in math: How Do We Help Students Think Like Mathematicians? -- Curriculum Connections -- Connections to Knowledge Building Principles -- Building the Foundation of a KB Community in the Math Classroom -- What Does a Collaborative Problem Solving Session Look Like? -- Working with Real-Life Issues Forum and Cross-Curricular Questions where Math Can Be Emphasized -- Case Study (Grade 6/7): Getting Knowledge Building Started in Mathematics -- Case Study (Grade 7/8): Knowledge Building in the Intermediate Mathematics Classroom -- Summary: Habits of Mind and Practice in a KB Community -- Knowledge Building Progressions -- KB Progressions: How to Grow a KB Culture in the Classroom -- Fostering Collective KB Discourse -- Community Norms -- Developing Ideas -- Meta-Cognition/Meta-talk -- Knowledge forum: Knowledge Forum: Technology to Support Creative Work with Ideas -- Bringing ‘Community Knowledge, Collective Responsibility’ to Life -- Knowledge Building Gallery / Leading Student Achievement: Networks for Learning -- Specially-Designed Knowledge Building Supports -- How Do I get Started with KF? -- A Sneak Peek into Knowledge Forum’s Coming Assessment Tools -- The Contribution Tool --The Word Cloud Tool -- The Scaffold Tracker Tool -- The Vocabulary Growth Tool --The Promising Ideas Tool -- Assessment & evaluation: Assessment & Evaluation in Knowledge Building -- The Knowledge Building Assessment Innovation Gallery -- Formative Assessment Tools -- Summative Assessment Tools -- Evaluation and Reporting -- Assessment tool library: Assessment Tool Library and Samples of Student Work -- Co-constructed Knowledge Goals -- Knowledge Building Circle Rubric -- Knowledge Building Circle Self-Evaluation -- Knowledge Circle/Knowledge Talk Reflection -- My Investigations and Record of Observation Log -- My Self-Assessment Log -- Picture Learning Log -- E-Portfolios -- Knowledge Survey -- Knowledge building: a living theory: Why Knowledge Building, Why Now? -- The “Ingenuity Gap” -- What is Knowledge Building? -- The 12 Principles of Knowledge Building -- Knowledge Building Gallery / Leading Student Achievement: Networks for Learning -- All Ideas Are Improvable! -- Learning and Knowledge Building: An Important Distinction -- Knowledge that Has a Public Life -- Can Children Really Be Expected to Create New Knowledge? -- What the Research Says -- References.