Authentic Context: Community Partners
Hear some useful tips for when you have to contact a potential community partner.
Hear some useful tips for when you have to contact a potential community partner.
Once you’ve selected your Inquiry, you can easily access the modules that make up your Inquiry. Learn more about all the tools and information needed to plan, prepare, and deliver impactful inquiry-based lessons.
Learn how to manage, edit, and present lesson slide decks.
Learn how to locate assessments and their guides to effectively support growth in inquiry-based learning.
Concentric Circles get students talking to different classmates, allowing them to hear from a variety of perspectives in response to a series of prompts. This protocol fosters understanding of different perspectives while promoting students’ speaking and listening skills.
Participants: This session is designed for any teacher interested in learning more about analyzing student work. Overview: Are you thinking of new ways to improve your practice? Student work analysis provides teachers with a meaningful opportunity to reflect on their practice and...
Learn more about the key features of each lesson.
This reflection protocol prompts students to identify key takeaways from a sustained inquiry experience. Use this to support students in sharing their thoughts with the whole class and making connections to others’ ideas.
Learn how to customize the Inquiry Product that students will develop.
Participants: This workshop is designed for school and district leaders to begin strategically planning for successful implementation based on your unique context. Overview: During this workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with other leaders to strategically plan for implementing...
Artifact studies challenge students to analyze a primary source by identifying evidence, explaining interpretations, and drawing conclusions. Use this format when students analyze an unfamiliar primary source individually, in small groups, or as a whole class.
A Think Pair Share gives every student the opportunity to be heard. Students who have difficulty sharing ideas in large groups have a chance to rehearse with a partner, and those who always want to share are guaranteed the chance...
With special guest Melissa Marks (Professor of Education, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg). Picture books are a great way for students to investigate diverse perspectives in history and build literacy skills. Join us for practical ideas about using inquiry, critical thinking,...
Participants: This session is for anyone interested in thinking about how to implement inquiry-based social studies with young students. Overview: What does inquiry in social studies look like in a kindergarten classroom? How can it integrate with literacy instruction for first...
Participants: This session is designed for district leaders who want to explore how to customize Inquiry units to provide guidance to teachers using Inquiry Journeys. Overview: During this session, you will get an overview of the Inquiry unit customization feature...