A creative approach to the Common Core standards : the Da Vinci Curriculum / Harry Chaucer.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index.

The Common Core as unprecedented opportunity: Renaissance or reform? -- The Da Vinci Core Curriculum in light of contemporary educational theory -- The Da Vinci Core Curriculum: Student, teacher, and the Common Core -- Using the mind well: Inductive and Socratic instructional practices, becoming disciples of experience -- The Da Vinci teacher: Engaging teachers, engaged students -- Recipes from the Da Vinci Curriculum: Chef Leonardo -- Details of the Da Vinci Curriculum and alignment with the Common Core State Standards -- Selected examples of rich inductive content from the seventh to ninth grade Da Vinci Curriculum -- Selected examples of rich inductive content from the tenth to twelfth grade Da Vinci Curriculum -- Leonardo da Vinci: His life and his relevance to our lives today -- Rounding out the program: Satellite programs and common questions -- Putting theory into practice: New schools, schools within schools, and curriculum renewal, DuFour and Evans 101.

Challenges educators to design programs that boldly embrace the Common Core State Standards by imaginatively drawing from the genius of great men and women, such as Leonardo da Vinci. A central figure in the High Renaissance, Leonardo made extraordinary contributions as a painter, architect, sculptor, scientist, engineer, and futurist. This book demonstrates that schools can cultivate genius such as Leonardo's, while ensuring that all students realize the core skills crucial to citizens. Relevant to public and independent educators who are creating schools-within-schools and charter schools, renewing schools, or rethinking their own classrooms, this book serves as a model of biographical curricula that embraces the standards that Americans share as citizens in a democracy.