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John McKellar shares something of his experience, siting LVT as instrumental, in developing a thinking and learning culture in Primary Schools.

Things change only slowly in education and some say that things don’t actually change, they just get re-discovered and re-named. There may be some truth in that, for the process of change in education is complex and requires the sympathetic coming together of some key components, such as:

• Commonly accepted beliefs in what constitutes worthwhile teaching and learning
• Political and social support
• Models of effective practice
• Opportunities for teachers and pupils to do and learn

It may be safe to say that these components have succeeded to rendezvous – albeit via a variety of routes – to enable schools and classrooms to identify themselves as "thinking schools" or "thinking classrooms".

Thinking Schools, Thinking Classrooms pdf article.