"All learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory." (Adler)

FEATURED PRODUCTS

The Seminar Sampler

The National Paideia Center staff and faculty have created a collection of seminar plans to address a wide variety of ideas, values, texts, and audiences. For K-12 administrators and teachers, The Seminar Sampler is an essential Paideia School-Classroom Resource.

Paideia Journal
This 5.5”x8.5” book has a green cover, 50 blank sheets, and spiral binding.

Paideia T-shirt Blue short-sleeve T-shirt in 100% heavy cotton. Printed 2 color with Paideia logo on the front and Adler quote, “All learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory” on the back.

Touchstones Materials
The Touchstones Discussion Project, founded by three professors at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, is a prime source of curriculum materials designed specifically for use in student-centered discussions and seminars. The texts are carefully excerpted and edited to enable open-ended exploration and encourage inquiry. They address such topics as justice, equality, relationships with others, power, democracy, and truth. Authors include Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth Cady-Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Nicomachus, Olaudah Equiano, Blaise Pascal, Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, Henri Poincaré, and Emilie du Chatelet, to name just a few. More information at www.touchstones.org

Center for the Study of the Great Ideas

The Center for the Study of the Great Ideas, founded in 1990 by Mortimer J. Adler and Max Weismann, continue the discussion of why philosophy is everybody's business.
www.thegreatideas.org

New!
Active Thinking Through Dialogue
2nd Edition

Targeted Instructional Manuals

The staff of the National Paideia Center designed these books so that you may learn about the Paideia Seminar, Paideia Project, and authentic Assessment. First, we offer these manuals for you to use during guided study, perhaps lead by an experienced Paideia educatior. Second, we offer these manuals as stand-alone texts for those educators who are interested in one or more aspects of the Paideia classroom but who don’t have access to formal Paideia training.
The first two manuals, entitled The Paideia Seminar: Active Thinking through Dialogue are comprehensive introductions to the theory and practice of Paideia Seminar: one for elementary teachers and administrators (grade K-5) and the second for secondary teachers and administrators (grade 6-12).

The third manual, entitled Intellectual Coaching and the Coached Project is a thorough introduction to two aspects of “coaching” in the Paideia Classroom: the facilitation of intellectual skill development and the creation of the coached project, a re-design of a traditional unit into a powerful interactive experience leading to authentic products and performances.

The fourth manual, entitled Assessment for Teaching and Learning is a complete introduction to assessment and evaluation as an ongoing part of the learning process at both the school and classroom levels. This manual covers strategic planning and school-community assessment as well as the full spectrum of student and teacher assessment.