Behind the Habits

Arthur L. Costa, Ed.D. is an Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University, Sacramento, and Co-Director of the Institute for Intelligent Behavior in El Dorado Hills, California. He has served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, and an assistant superintendent for instruction and as the director of educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

He has made presentations and conducted workshops in all 50 states as well as Mexico, Central and South America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Islands of the South Pacific.

Costa has written numerous books, including Techniques for Teaching Thinking (with Larry Lowery), The School as a Home for the Mind, and Cognitive Coaching: A Foundation for Renaissance Schools (with Robert Garmston). He is editor of Developing Minds: a Resource Book for Teaching Thinking, co-editor (with Rosemarie Liebmann) of the Process as Content Trilogy: Envisioning Process as Content, Supporting the Spirit of Learning, and The Process Centered School.

Active in many professional organizations, Costa served as president of the California Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and was the National President of Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1988 to 1989.

Bena Kallick, Ph.D. is a private consultant providing services to school districts, state departments of education, professional organizations and public sector agencies throughout the United States. Dr. Kallick received her doctorate in educational evaluation with Union Graduate School. Her areas of focus include group dynamics, creative and critical thinking and alternative assessment strategies in the classroom. Formerly a Teachers' Center Director, Dr. Kallick also created a Children's Museum based on problem solving and invention.

She was the coordinator of a high school alternative designed for at-risk students. Her written work includes Literature to Think About (a whole language curriculum published with Weston Woods Studios), Changing Schools Into Communities for Thinking, North Dakota Study Group, University of North Dakota, Assessment in the Learning Organization, co-authored with Arthur Costa, from ASCD, Sept. 1995. Her audio tapes include Creative and Critical Thinking: Teaching Alternatives and Collaborative Learning: Strategies to Encourage Thinking (with Marian Leibowitz). She is co-founder of TECHPATHS, a company designed to facilitate teacher's networks and communications about performance assessment. Dr. Kallick's teaching appointments have included Yale University School of Organization and Management, University of Massachusetts Center for Creative and Critical Thinking, and Union Graduate School. She is on the Boards for JOBS for the Future and the Apple Foundation.