Over 300 Ideas to Invite Students Into Learning, Thinking, Going Deeper & Reflection

Over 300 Ideas to Invite Students Into Learning, Thinking, Going Deeper & Reflection

This is an exciting resource!

This PDF was created by the global #inquirymindset community in response to a tweet I shared recently. The tweet called on educator to share their thoughts to my question: what specific language do you use to invite students into learning, thinking, going deeper, and reflections? I’d love to hear some of your most trusted and sharpened language. I’d love to see a long stream of beautiful replies to this tweet.

Portuguese Translations of Sketchnotes Now Available

Portuguese Translations of Sketchnotes Now Available

It is such an amazing gift to see the sketchnotes from Dive into Inquiry and the Inquiry Mindset Series reach educators far and wide. Recently one of our Portuguese partner schools and Rebecca worked on translating some of the resources for their teachers. Here are a few of them for you to use as you like. Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks! To download, simply click on the high-res image.

New Sketch: an Invitation to Inquiry

New Sketch: an Invitation to Inquiry

This new Types of Student Inquiry sketchnote is meant to be just that, an open invitation to the onlooker to reflect and explore. Whether it is used with educators to begin unpacking their own language to what a gradual release of responsibility over learning looks like, sounds like, and feels like, or if it is used with students to being unpacking their own role in agency in our classrooms, this image is a different entry point to the conversation than the original swimming pool sketch.

What Would Happen If We Had More Teachers in the Classroom to Help in the Inquiry Process?

What Would Happen If We Had More Teachers in the Classroom to Help in the Inquiry Process?

This last year was the most challenging of my career. Upon reflecting on these difficulties I have noticed many highlights, many things that worked incredibly well, and some decisions that I made that I want to revisit in the coming year. I’d like to share some of them with you here and call on you to reflect on whether what worked with my students could impact yours.

Guiding Questions Resource

Guiding Questions Resource

Sprinkled throughout Inquiry Mindset Assessment Edition are more than 200 guiding questions. Isn’t that amazing? Some of these guiding questions are for teachers to shape their planning, collaboration, implementation, and ongoing growth. Some of these guiding questions are for students to have them reflect on themselves as learners, consider their learning strengths and stretches, and to surface their curiosities and wonders. Every single questions throughout Inquiry Mindset Assessment Edition has been curated for you in this Guiding Questions Resource. Each can be located under categorized uses to make bringing guiding questions to your inquiry practice easier.

Sneak Peek: Guiding Questions for Inquiry Teachers

Sneak Peek: Guiding Questions for Inquiry Teachers

As part of the release of Inquiry Mindset Assessment Edition, I would like to share with you some of the sketchnotes from the book. This one is titled Guiding Questions for Inquiry Teachers. It frames chapter six, Asking the Right Questions, and encompasses eight guiding questions to support inquiry teachers in reflecting on how they can give more agency and ownership to students. The book has over 200 guiding questions throughout the chapters. These guiding questions support both teachers and students in redefining their roles in the classroom. Guiding questions truly are the secret sauce!