The Institute held at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, July 30-August 2, 2012, is designed this year to be more responsive to the educational realities of 2012.

It is time to...

• Focus foremost on the learner and the learning process
• Create curriculum and instruction that shifts the cognitive load from teacher to student
• Create curriculum and instruction that will prepare young people to live well and contribute positively to our modern world, and
• Cultivate the capacities most needed to do be able to do so, emphasizing:

1. Enduring understandings that transcend content
2. Creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving
3. Self-knowledge and self-refection
4. Collaboration and teamwork
5. Communication and literacy
6. Empathy & Tolerance
7. Global Awareness