Transforming Schools:
Building Conditions for Modern Learning
Diana Laufenberg & Chris LehmannInquiry Schools@dlaufenberg & @chrislehmann
Inquiry Research
Collaboration Presentation Reflection
How do you define inquiry?
Getting Started:
What Changes When You Help Students Develop The Skill of Inquiry?
Tracking Change:
Inquiry Develops:
Choice Personalization
Relevance Empowerment
Care
Inquiry Complicates:Covering Content
Planning Assessment
Inquiry isn’t:Us asking kids questions we know the
answers to.
How do we create enough structure to be effective
without becoming so rigid that we can't innovate
For example...http://bit.ly/SLAPublicInfo
http://tinyurl.com/buildinghistory
http://bit.ly/RamiEnglish11_Sept
http://bit.ly/SLASFP1213
It's Complicated:
Discussion:To/For
By/With
Next Questions:What are your fears about doing this?What fears might your learners have?
How will you mitigate those fears?
Really Big Questions:
What else will change if your pedagogy becomes more inquiry-driven?
What changes if your entire system becomes more inquiry-driven?
Ubiquitous, Necessaryand Invisible
Discussion:How do we ensure that the technology
serves the learning, not the other way around?
Senior Capstonehttp://bit.ly/SLACapstone
http://bit.ly/WynnCapstone
Reflections:How would a deeper movement into the
inquiry process change your teaching?
Change your school?
What needs to happen for you to move further in this direction?
More Information:
inquiryschools.org
Building School 2.0