 In nurturing critical thinking in students, you know, we often talk about how do you build the community, how do you frame the task. But my caution to teachers is always, you know, if you frame, you know, you could create a wonderfully supportive community. You have wonderfully rich tasks for kids that invite and challenge them to think. But if that's where we stop, you actually won't advance critical thinking very much because you haven't given me the supports I need to do that. Some kids go home to both parents who are well educated, some go home to a parent working, a single parent working evenings. It's not a level playing field. And I think, you know, we have a moral imperative as educators to say how do we build the intellectual tools that will allow all our children to succeed, not be dependent on who's going home to what supports at home. So that's part of our classroom job is to make sure children have those tools. So there are five intellectual tools that we need to pay attention to in supporting students as critical thinkers. One is building their background knowledge. Second is helping them to identify and use criteria. Third is ensuring that they understand and can use the critical thinking vocabulary that they need. The fourth that we need to be conscious of are thinking strategies that will help students to organize, see trends, make connections. So those are thinking strategies that students would use. And fifth are the habits of good thinkers that we want to nurture over time. And there are 19 habits that we work with that we would use to decide what would most help students. So those are the five intellectual tools we focus on.