All successful education transfers control and responsibility from the teacher to the learner, gradually and effectively. At Carroll, the Strategic Learners Initiative is a school-wide program that constantly reinforces six fundamental behaviors of strategic learners. That is, we expect our children to be able to explain and to act on six explicit habits of highly effective learners. With the guidance of Dr. Lynn Meltzer's team at ResearchILD in Lexington, the faculty has been engaged in defining and describing these strategies:

1. Memory- "I know how my brain works and I know how to memorize important information."
2. Comprehension- "I know several different maps that help me put information in logical order."
3. Organization- "I can tell you exactly how I like to organize information and my things."
4. Attention- "I have techniques for staying tuned into the important things."
5. Checking- "I follow a plan for making sure I have done things right."
6. Shifting- "I know how to move from one task to another."

To promote this initiative, every classroom at Carroll has the same Strategies Poster to remind all of us to use our strategies. Click here to view the PDF version of the Carroll School Strategies Poster.