Classroom for the Conceptual Age: Chronicles of an Integrated Exploratory Teacher details an innovative way to revolutionize American schools from the inside out. Thirty years of school reform have done little to stem the annual tsunami of dropouts, improve our standing on international scholastic comparisons (PISA), or prepare students for the 21st Century global workplace. This book, a year-long case study of a single class in a single classroom in California, heralds the return of joyful learning, despite tight budgets and the strictures of fixed curriculum standards, in a dynamic Conceptual Age. The Integrated Exploratory program is about delivering curriculum. Not curriculum. Not standards or frameworks. It is about discernment. Its focus is the vital way in which pupils interact with one another and with materials, in the presence of concepts and ideas, to form new understandings. The book includes access to a step-by-step guide for teachers, administrators, and parents who wish to replicate the Integrated Exploratory experience. - from Amzon