Three Lenses of the Tikkun Project

Critical Thinking

It is essential for students to be confident in their ability to find solutions to complex problems by thinking creatively and flexibly. By developing critical thinking skills, students learn how to use relevant criteria to make informed choices about the best ways to leverage their learning to make positive changes.

Cultural and Community Values

Students feel a sense of social responsibility and understand it to be an integral part of their own identities and heritage. Students learn how to engage with and make meaning from important cultural/religious texts and understand themselves as an integral part of a larger tradition and community.

Hands-On Action

Tikkun Olam i.e. the “Repair of the World” is the foundational concept for this Project. Students consider every appropriate aspect of the wider educational curriculum through a lens of social responsibility. Through different disciplines, modalities, and communal activities the curriculum creates tangible and evident opportunities for students to address “real world” challenges.

Tikkun Learner Outcomes

The Tikkun Project Learner Outcomes are the habits of heart and mind that we hope to see in students as a result of their experiences in K-8 Tikkun Units. The outcomes are divided into categories using the three foundational lenses of the curriculum; Critical Thinking, Community Context and Hands-on Action.

Each unit in the curriculum emphasizes at least one outcome from each of the three lenses that are the foundation of the Tikkun Curriculum and through the scope and sequence of the whole curriculum, students will have opportunities to practice the skills and actions that demonstrate each of these anticipated outcomes.

CRITICAL THINKING

Makes informed choices

Thinks flexibly and creatively

Seeks to understand complex problems

Engages in self-reflection

CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY VALUES

Makes connections between personal actions and community values

Demonstrates respect for self and others

Makes meaning from generative texts

Demonstrates commitment to the wellbeing of oneself, one’s family and one’s community

HANDS-ON ACTION

Strives to make communities equitable and inclusive for all people

Builds trusting relationships with others

Takes action to support the well-being of individuals, societies and the environment

Leads by example