{"id":866,"date":"2012-03-06T06:25:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T06:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=866"},"modified":"2012-03-06T06:25:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T06:25:06","slug":"eminence-staff-get-a-briefing-from-thinking-maps-author-david-hyerle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"Eminence Staff get a briefing from Thinking Maps Author, David Hyerle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Edda Zekarias<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\\\/?p=866\"}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-866 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/comp4.jpg?ssl=1\" title=\"comp4\" data-description=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" 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In the briefing, he said that TSI was a result of experiences in the 1980s US educational revolution which initiated a wave of thinking pattern necessities that eventually changed schooling systems. As more refining came about, thinking was infiltrated into schools and organizations focused on creative and productive skills development and so forth. \u00a0He shared some success stories from projects in Malaysia and South Africa where support for Thinking Schools approach has been overwhelming and greatly encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking Schools coming to Ethiopia through Eminence was also noted as a good collaboration between TSI and Eminence. He noted the benefits of having a comprehensive company as Eminence would facilitate the process mentioning the training and media department engagements in the areas of product development \/publications, videos, software development, etc\/ to assist with the program. Not only limited to the schooling environment, he added that Thinking Schools approach has been used in huge corporations and businesses and could have like potential in Ethiopia and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Edda Zekarias \u2018Thinking, network, creativity\u2019 and \u2018improve problem solving\u2019 were some of the terms that Dr. Hyerle used to brief Eminence staff on the concept of Thinking Schools International \/TSI\/ and what has been achieved and could be expected once implemented. In the briefing, he said that TSI was a result of experiences in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=866\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eminence Staff get a briefing from Thinking Maps Author, David Hyerle<\/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-866","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-dY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":874,"url":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=874","url_meta":{"origin":866,"position":0},"title":"TSI meets AAEB","author":"admin","date":"March 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"By: Edda Zekarias David Hyerle Ed.D, Thinking Schools International Co-Director met with Ato Dilamo Otore, Head of the Addis Ababa Education Bureau. 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