Customizing a Handout
Learn how to customize handouts to meet your students’ needs by editing text, adjusting layouts, and personalizing materials for engagement, differentiation, and accessibility.
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Supportive Strategies for Language & Learning
inquirED has developed a toolbox for supporting MLLs that incorporates asset-based teaching strategies that support language development alongside content learning.
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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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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.
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Conver-stations
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).
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Predict Learn Conclude
A Predict Learn Conclude prompts students to make inferences, test those inferences while gathering information, and construct conclusions. Use this strategy as a pre-assessment, as an anticipatory set, or to assess student thinking.
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Investigation Stations
Investigation stations provide a source or sources that students use to gather information. Sources might include text, images, artifacts, videos, or even step-by-step activities, and are often clustered by subtopic. Students might choose stations based on interest, or they might...
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Artifact Study
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.
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inquirED See-Think-Wonder Protocol for Student Work Analysis
Use this collaborative protocol to examine student work and identify next steps for instruction.
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Learner Support Guide: Reading Complex Texts
This resource describes literacy scaffolds that support students prior to, during, and after the reading of complex texts in Inquiry Journeys. Consider using one or more of these strategies if you anticipate students may struggle with a reading task.
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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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Users List Management for Manually Rostered Districts
Learn how district leads in manually rostered districts, with Account Owner or Manage Rosters permissions, can roster, edit, and remove users as needed.
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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.
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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.
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Schools List Management for Manually Rostered Districts
Learn how district leaders in manually rostered districts can add, edit, and remove schools.
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inquirED Co-Teacher Functionality for SSO Districts (Clever/ClassLink)
Learn what co-teachers can see and do in shared inquirED classes synced through Clever or ClassLink.
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Inquiry Hub Guided Tour
Watch this video for an introduction to the Inquiry Hub.
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Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
See how you can use a Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning framework in your classroom.
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Assessment: Class Checklists
Learn how class checklists can be a powerful assessment tool for the inquiry classroom.
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Preparing for Your Presentation Product
Discover the ins and outs of Presentation Product design, creation, presentation, and assessment.
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Construct Phase: Product Brainstorm
Explore how to guide your students toward effective brainstorming.
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Sarah’s Tip: Look Out for Spotlights
Welcome to the Inquiry Hub - we are glad you’re here! The Inquiry Hub has been created by the inquirED Partner Experience team to provide you with everything from quick tips and answers to rich professional learning and PLCs. Take...
