1. Transforming Schools:
Building Conditions for
Modern Learning
Diana Laufenberg & Chris Lehmann
Inquiry Schools
@dlaufenberg & @chrislehmann

2. Inquiry
Research
Collaboration
Presentation
Reflection

3. How do you define inquiry?
Getting Started:

4. Process

5. What Changes WhenYou Help Students
Develop The Skill of Inquiry?
Tracking Change:

6. Inquiry Develops:
Choice
Personalization
Relevance
Empowerment
Care

7. Inquiry Complicates:
Covering Content
Planning
Assessment

8. Inquiry isn’t:
Us asking kids questions we know the
answers to.

9. How do we create enough
structure to be effective
without becoming so rigid
that we can't innovate

10. Guided Inquiry

11. For example...
http://bit.ly/SLAPublicInfo
http://tinyurl.com/buildinghistory
http://bit.ly/RamiEnglish11_Sept
http://bit.ly/SLASFP1213

12. It's Complicated:

13. Discussion:
To/For
By/With

14. Next Questions:
What are your fears about doing this?
What fears might your learners have?
How will you mitigate those fears?

15. Really Big Questions:
What else will change if your pedagogy
becomes more inquiry-driven?
What changes if your entire system
becomes more inquiry-driven?

16. Using Tech:

17. Ubiquitous, Necessary
and Invisible

18. Discussion:
How do we ensure that the technology
serves the learning, not the other way
around?

19. Open Inquiry

20. Senior Capstone
http://bit.ly/SLACapstone
http://bit.ly/WynnCapstone

21. 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?

22. More Information:
inquiryschools.org
Building School 2.0