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How It Works


Tribes is a step-by-step process to achieve specific learning goals. Four agreements are honored:

  • attentive listening
  • appreciation/no put downs
  • mutual respect, and
  • the right to pass

Achieve specific learning goals with Tribes

Students learn a set of collaborative skills so they can work well together in long-term groups (tribes). The focus is on how to:

  • help each other work on tasks
  • set goals and solve problems
  • monitor and assess progress
  • celebrate achievements.

The learning of academic material and self-responsible behavior is assured because teachers utilize methods based upon brain-compatible learning, multiple intelligences, cooperative learning and social development research. The teachers and administrators in a Tribes school or district also work together in supportive groups. They too enjoy the participatory democratic process and creative collegiality.

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