Group Roles
As students engage in collaborative work, they often benefit from the structure of assigned group roles.
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π inquirED's Social Studies for School Leaders
Participants: This session is designed for School Leaders in buildings that will be implementing inquirED's inquiry-based social studies curriculum. Overview: In this session, you will be oriented to the inquirED's social studies curriculum. You will explore the inquiry-based teaching practices...
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Schools List Management for SSO Districts Using Clever and ClassLink
Learn how district leaders can review and manage school lists and sharing settings in inquirED and connected SSO platforms like Clever or ClassLink.
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Mid-Year Reflection Notecatcher (Live Session)
Download and use this note catcher to organize your thoughts and observations as you advance through "Mid-Year Reflection."
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Using Dramatic Play: Introduction
Explore how using a dramatic play can help students connect to their learning.
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Critique: Gallery Walk
Learn how to utilize a gallery walk to help norm critique behaviors.
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What is Informed Action?
Informed action helps students transform their content knowledge into action and connect it with their lived experience. It requires students to use what they've learned to inspire, change behaviors, solve a problem, or serve an audience. When an Inquiry promotes...
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Learner Support Guide: Evidence-Based Conclusions
Drawing evidence-based conclusions is a key skill that allows them to demonstrate their learning and communicate conclusions. Students may benefit from additional support or challenge when practicing this skill.
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Note Card Reflection
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 othersβ ideas.
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Printing Lesson Plans
Learn how to print lesson plans, slides, and materials from inquirED to easily prepare for instruction or share resources with students.
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Inquiry Print Builder
Select and compile components of an Inquiry into a print-ready document that will be emailed directly to you, making it easy to bulk print materials and plan ahead.
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Changing Your Timezone in the Inquiry Hub
Learn how to change your time zone in the Inquiry Hub.
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Reading Strategy: Preparing to Read Complex Texts
Preparing students to read a complex text includes helping them develop habits practiced by experienced readers, such as using their overall knowledge of a text to support comprehension and meaning making. This can help students persist in reading even when...
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Reading Strategy: Procedures
Varying how students engage with a text is an excellent strategy when there are diverse reading levels in the classroom. These common reading procedures may be effective in your classroom, but this list is by no means exhaustive. Note that...
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Strategies for Successful Implementation
Leadership is an important part of implementation, and supporting teachers through the learning process of implementing a new curriculum requires strategic and intentional moves. Here are some action steps that other leaders have taken to support their teachers towards implementation...
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Turn and Talk / Shoulder Partners
Use these strategies to prompt a quick conversation between students who are already seated close together. Because there is no special seating arrangement or protocol required, it is perhaps the most flexible and informal discussion strategy.
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QFT Slides
Use these slides to support your students through the steps of the QFT.
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Making the Case for Elementary Social Studies: Sources as Mirrors and Windows
How do the sources teachers choose provide mirrors and windows for students? We explored that question with Cereescia Sandoval, one of inquirED's Learning Experience Designers. Check out the webinar recording and blog post to learn more.
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Question Formulation Technique, Scaled for Emergent Readers: Protocol Guide
The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) was developed by the Right Question Institute to help anyone produce, improve, and prioritize questions. Use this scaled version of the protocol with emergent readers or writers to generate Investigation Questions that will help them...
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inquirED's Inquiry Teaching Practices & Reflection Tools
inquirED's Inquiry Teaching Practices and Reflection Tools support teachers in creating an inquiry based classroom.
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"Inquiry Journeys: Supporting Culturally Responsive Education" Position Paper
While there is no single definition of culturally responsive instruction, at inquirED we've established a set of criteria to describe its use in our curriculum and to guide us as we continue to evolve. We've developed these criteria from the...
