{"id":1570,"date":"2013-08-23T12:33:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T12:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2013-09-09T15:58:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T15:58:53","slug":"bikolos-nur-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"Bikolos Nur Academy &#8211; Transformational Design &#8211; Whole School Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bikolos-apr13-teachers-students1.11.pdf\">Download the reflective poster (pdf file)<\/a> of Bikolos Nur Academy,\u00a0Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as seen below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bikolos-apr13-teachers-students1.11.pdf\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1590\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?attachment_id=1590\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bikolos-apr13-teachers-students2.jpg?fit=648%2C993&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"648,993\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bikolos-apr13-teachers-students2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bikolos-apr13-teachers-students2.jpg?fit=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bikolos-apr13-teachers-students2.jpg?fit=648%2C993&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-1590 alignright\" title=\"Bikolos-apr13-teachers-students2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bikolos-apr13-teachers-students2.jpg?resize=518%2C794\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bikolos-apr13-teachers-students2.jpg?w=648&amp;ssl=1 648w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bikolos-apr13-teachers-students2.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hannan: <\/strong>I really think that Thinking maps make a big difference in my life because before I really didn\u2019t read my books much because it takes too much time to understand, but now I am interested to open my exercise books make Thinking Maps to actually study and know what I am reading. We can be independent and learn by ourselves, because Thinking Maps are our teachers. They make everything easy so that we can read and remember \u2014 it makes you visualize things. Thinking Maps capture our thinking in our mind.<br \/>\n<em>Hannan Abdulfetah, Grade 9 Student<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Bikolos-apr13-teachers-students1.11.pdf\">Download the reflective poster (pdf file)<\/a>\u00a0of Bikolos Nur Academy,<br \/>\nAddis Ababa, Ethiopia as seen to the right.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download the reflective poster (pdf file) of Bikolos Nur Academy,\u00a0Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as seen below. Hannan: I really think that Thinking maps make a big difference in my life because before I really didn\u2019t read my books much because it takes too much time to understand, but now I am interested to open my exercise&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=1570\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bikolos Nur Academy &#8211; Transformational Design &#8211; Whole School Change<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","gallery-content-unit","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7oKjh-pk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1292,"url":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=1292","url_meta":{"origin":1570,"position":0},"title":"Bikolos Nur Academy: A Journey Started","author":"admin","date":"April 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"By Bereket Aweke Read the Bikolos PDF file of students, teachers, school director reflections Bikolos Nur Academy became the first private school in Ethiopia to start the journey of becoming a Thinking School. 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