Here is a special gift for you all: the introduction to Inquiry Mindset Assessment Edition.

I wrote this book for a few reasons.

One, I had noticed something startling in how some of the teenagers I worked with were impacted by their assessment experiences throughout their schooling. They saw themselves as not capable. They saw their learning as a mix of letter grades and percentage scores. They compared themselves with those around them. Constantly. These experiences were having a huge effect on how they viewed themselves, their potential, and their future. It was distressing.

This is so very exciting!

I am reconnecting with inquiry pals Kimberly Mitchell and Kath Murdoch for another conversation around the fire and the best part is, you’re invited!

Our focus will be exploring ways in which we can build a culture of and for inquiry in your classrooms.

I am so thankful to share this piece with you, an article I penned for STEM Ed Magazine. I have adored the conversations, sharing, and community that STEM Ed Magazine has been cultivating the past while. Always keen on engaging the learner (whether students or educators), each offering of podcasts and digital/print magazine issues are invigorating for my practice.

In my contribution to Issue 4 I share some thoughts on the ties between STEM and inquiry and unpack some of the skills of student agency that allows learners to feel be confident and prepared to take on new and exciting roles in their learning and in life.

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.

Here is a new to you resource that we have been using with teachers to support their inquiry planning when collaborating with one another and working towards bringing more intentionality to the experience of inquiry with their students.

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.

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.

This is fun and new for me! My "Inquiry Mindset: Cultivating Student Agency" session for the 2022 South by Southwest® Conference has been chosen as a PanelPicker® selection!

This means that from now until Thursday, August 26 educators can vote for this session to be on the SXSW conference agenda.

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.

I am currently sitting in an airport on my way home from an inquiry partnership in Mesa, Arizona and as I wait for this last flight to board so I can get home to my sleeping family, I find myself in a highly reflective space.