Help me give my students a chance to practice “Vertical Thinking” by providing mountable dry erase boards. This strategy promotes collaborative skills, including sharing, equal access, random partners, communication, and social-emotional skills!
$567 goal
This project expired on August 25, 2025.
This project expired on August 25, 2025.
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Using vertical thinking in the classroom provides students a chance to become deep thinkers who know how to share, listen, respect opinions of others, work (randomly assigned) with all types of personalities, have equal access to express their ideas, easily erase ideas to minimize embarrassment, and to practice explaining their thinking. The strategy, by Peter Liljedahl, is research-based and has been popularized by his book and movement “Building Thinking Classrooms.” I am the first person at my rural school to pilot his ideas.
This school year, I purchased reusable, sticky whiteboard paper and made 8 vertical thinking stations around my room.
Convincing the kids to participate and to work with others who weren’t their friends was difficult at first, but continued practice and high expectations eventually turned this into one of their very favorite activities! The first question they ask when they enter the room is, “Are we doing vertical thinking today?”
I’m asking for the mountable boards because of their durability. The plastic sheets have worked, but need replacing. I don’t have the funds to buy the permanent and mountable whiteboards, so I thought I’d request help!
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
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70 students impacted
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