Building Thinking Classrooms 2025 Annual Conference

Instructional Routines in a Thinking Classroom: Compliance vs. Thinking
A thinking classroom is dynamic and, from some perspectives, unpredictable. But, there are moments within every thinking classroom lesson that are controlled and predictable—moments that are occasioned through the use of instructional routines. In this session, I talk about the varied roles that instructional routines can play in the thinking classroom and discuss the delicate tension between instructional routines, compliance, and maintaining student thinking.