Let's recontextualize metacognitive critical thinking

Last week I was listening to a discussion about the difficulty good classroom teachers have in coping with the educational "solution" du jour which is imposed on teachers by every new principal, imposed on districts by every new superintendent and so on. (Incidentally, there is research showing most educational programs work if maintained for long enough and none works when maintained for the length of time the average principal stays at one school in our district.) One teacher said her solution was to put the 5 most current edspeak phrases on a poster and make sure she stood beside it anytime an administrator was in the room. In that spirit, the internet has a solution for those who are in need of phrases for posters, Wednesday Professional Development presentations, and grant applications. The Educational Jargon Generator will gives you phrases that sound professional while guaranteed to contain no harmful (or other) content. In the spirit of the EJG, the Department of Teaching, Learning and General Obstruction has a nifty Bloom's Taxonomy* Question and Task Design Wheel that can be used to generate strong, measurable Performance Objectives guaranteed to sound really good on your PD application. Unfortunately, what you want people to learn might not be very measurable or even worse, might be hard to learn and result in bad evaluations so it's important to keep those objectives focused on simple, measurable tasks.
In Professional Development today we learned that we need to honor different learning styles and always have an agenda. I like agendas, but I'm Concrete Sequential. What about those Random Abstracts out there? Should we be constraining their learning with agendas? Should we have an agenda for sequentials and a mind map for randoms?

*Bloom's Taxonomy categorizes thinking as higher or lower level skills, a definitely hierarchical system. Why does PD put it in a wheel which is continuous and not hierarchical? Are they deliberately messing with our minds? Incidentally, if the Bloom's design wheel doesn't work for you, try the Bloom's Question Design site.