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Planning one great question isn't the whole game. Its not just the question, its how you ask it. It's not just getting the students' answers, its what you do with them. Its how you listen to the students' thinking and ask the NEXT question. And its not just students asking questions, its how we honor them. Its not just the questions, its the questioning.
Kimberly Mitchell, Founder and CEO, Inquiry Partners
Inquiry is, for me, the shiniest of silver bullets in a time of education policy gun slinging.
Rachel Sniff, Science Teacher and Chief Encouragement Officer (CEO), North Carolina
The root of all deeper growth depends on the ability to promote inquiry within the classroom.
Brooke Perry, 6th grade teacher, Gates TAC Member
You know that saying, “There are no stupid questions?” With kids especially, I see it as truth.
Shannon Treece, E-Magineer/Principal, Eminence Independent Schools, #SchoolonFire
Kids can change the world, if the adults are willing to allow the freedom of inquiry in their classrooms. It is transformative.
Christina Brennan, K-5 Teacher/Librarian
Student-Driven Inquiry through Genius Hour Research. What matters to students should matter in school.
It has been four years now, since the release of the Common Core standards in Mathematics. We have sought to understand, to implement, to adjust to the shift in practice and expectation. But as Grant Wiggins points out in his recent blog, I'm not sure we have really put our collective minds around the true intent and value to our students.
This is my favorite lesson from the book. Keep working, keep training, keep getting a few more hits every season.
It’s extremely difficult to build experiences for learners that learn differently than you do. Realizing that very fact is also difficult, but it’s a start.
The real magic in the Common Core Standards is that they articulate a different definition of school mathematics and what DOING math looks like. The Mathematics in this definition is a body of understanding, a discipline of sense-making.
