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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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How to Create Assignments in Schoology Using LTI Integration

Learn how to share lesson resources and review student work within Schoology using LTI Integration.

inquirED Co-Teacher Functionality for SSO Districts (Clever/ClassLink)

Learn what access and visibility co-teachers have in the inquirED app, including shared classes, students, and class details when connected through Clever or ClassLink.

Materials & Prep

Learn how to use the Materials & Prep tab to organize, access, and track lesson materials efficiently. This guide helps teachers save time and stay organized.

The Power of Informed Action in Social Studies

Discover the power of informed action in transforming social studies classrooms. Learn about its benefits, real-world applications, and how it engages students in meaningful and creative ways.

Inquiry Unit Homepage

Discover how to navigate the Inquiry Unit homepage to access modules, explore teaching resources, and plan each phase of inquiry-based learning in Inquiry Journeys.

Conver-stations allow students to discuss topics in constantly changing small groups. Use this format in response to complex discussion prompts or sources (ex. photos, videos, audio recordings, or written text).

Inquiry-Based Teaching

Inquiry-based teaching and learning involves shifting one’s mindset and approach to instruction, as well as deepening understanding of effective practices. In this course, participants learn about eight different Inquiry Teaching Practices and are introduced to tools that will support them...

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Data Sharing Reminders for SSO Districts Using inquirED Assignment Portal

Learn how to set up and manage data sharing for inquirED’s Assignment Portal when using Single Sign-On (SSO) platforms like Clever or ClassLink. This guide helps district and technology leaders prevent common rostering and login issues for teachers and students.

Popcorn Share-Out

Popcorns challenge students to share their ideas without talking over each other, which is great practice for real-life discussion skills. Use this strategy when it’s not necessary to hear from every single student in response to a prompt or question.

inquirED's Inquiry Teaching Practices Observation and Reflection Tool

The purpose of this observation and reflection tool is intended to support teachers in improving inquiry-based instructional practice. You might not observe all look-fors in one observation. Instead, focus on a few key areas based on student learning objectives and/or...

Culturally Responsive Education in Social Studies

Understanding what culturally responsive education (CRE) is and how a curriculum supports teachers in ensuring that students receive a culturally responsive education is an important part of meeting the needs of all students. In this session, participants learn what CRE...

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Learner Support Guide: Executive Functioning

The inquiry-based classroom provides opportunities for student-driven exploration. While this can be highly motivating and engaging, it also places high demands on students' executive functioning skills. Consider the following strategies to provide scaffolds as individual or whole-class supports of executive...

Analyzing Student Work: Collaborating with Students Participant Resources

Here are resources for analyzing student work collaboratively with students.

Assessments and Assessment Guides

Learn how to locate formative and summative assessments, and their guides, to effectively support growth in inquiry-based learning.

Quick Questions: Fostering Connection and Support

inquirED Literacy Practices and Supports Framework

Literacy is woven into the fabric of elementary social studies learning. As students build social studies content knowledge and disciplinary skills, they engage in deep literacy work: interrogating diverse sources, evaluating and constructing arguments, examining differing points of view and...

Adding Curriculum

Learn how to access and add curriculum for additional grade levels included in your inquirED subscription.

Civic Engagement: What Can a Citizen Do? Interview with Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris

Check out our blog for an inspiring recap of a recent inquirED and NCSS webinar featuring best-selling author Dave Eggers and illustrator Shawn Harris, discussing their book "What Can a Citizen Do?" Learn how educators from the Flemington-Raritan Regional School...

Using the inquirED Assignment Portal to Create Assignments

Explore how teachers and students use inquirED’s Assignment Portal to create and complete assignments.

Reading Strategy: Text Comprehension

Strategies that support students in understanding key concepts and details as they read promote deeper analysis of the text after they finish. Here are several strategies that teachers can use to support students, and students can use to support themselves....

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