Inquiry-Based Learning

Educators will understand the meaning, purpose, and value of inquiry-based learning.

Educators will learn how to shift from direct instruction to guided exploration.

Educators will create factual, conceptual, and debatable questions.

Educators will learn how to connect inquiry to big ideas, concepts, and real-life meaning.

Educators will design learning experiences that give passionate lifelong learners agency and responsibility.

Educators will teach passionate lifelong learners how to investigate, collect information, evaluate sources, and analyze findings.

Educators will design inquiry tasks for language, math, science, social studies, arts, and interdisciplinary learning.

Educators will guide passionate lifelong learners to reflect on thinking, learning strategies, and personal growth.

Educators will use formative assessment, rubrics, journals, presentations, and portfolios.

Educators will prepare a complete inquiry-based unit or learning sequence.