{"id":828,"date":"2012-03-02T16:47:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T16:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2012-03-04T13:03:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T13:03:45","slug":"dr-david-hyerle-thinking-maps-developer-visiting-thinking-schools-ethiopia-in-addis-ababa-3-8-march-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"Dr. David Hyerle – Thinking Maps Developer Visiting Thinking Schools Ethiopia in Addis Ababa 3-8 March 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 March 2012<\/em>
\nAddis Ababa, Ethiopia\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dr. David Hyerle<\/strong>, Thinking Maps<\/a>\u00ae developer, Thinking Schools International<\/a> co-director and Thinking Foundation<\/a> founder, will be visiting Thinking Schools Ethiopia (Eminence Social Entrepreneurs) next week on March 3-8, 2012. During this visit, he will meet and discuss the Thinking Schools Ethiopia project and Thinking Maps with select government officials and partners from the government and private sectors. This includes experts and leaders from Addis Ababa Education Bureau, Ministry of Education, NGOs and major Ethiopian universities. Dr. Hyerle will be visiting government schools in Addis Ababa and doing public presentations in addition to the above meetings. He will be arriving from South Africa where he participated in last weeks Thinking Schools South Africa conference. For additional information on Dr. Hyerle’s visit, please contact Bereket Aweke, Thinking Schools Ethiopia coordinator<\/a>\u00a0(select contacts in the menu).<\/p>\n

David Hyerle<\/strong>, EdD<\/strong>, is an author, researcher, seminar leader, and keynote speaker focused on integrating content learning, thinking process instruction, and collaborative leadership across whole schools. He is founding director of the Thinking Foundation\u00a0www.thinkingfoundation.org<\/a>, a nonprofit organization supporting research in cognitive and critical thinking development for the purpose of creating thinking schools nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n

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The creation of his Thinking Maps\u00ae model emerged from his experiences as a middle school teacher in inner city Oakland, California, USA. His development of Thinking Maps\u00ae was also informed by his work with the Bay Area Writing Project and the Cognitive Coaching model.<\/p>\n