Inside: Learn about the Positivity Project, an approach to social emotional learning that strives to build self-awareness & positive relationships. What is the Positivity Project? If you read one post, I hope that it will be this one because I want to tell you about a really amazing approach to character education and social emotional […]
Archives for August 2017
Curious Classroom Book Study: Learn With Partners and Pioneers
Chapter 10 Inside This Chapter In this last chapter, you’ll find ideas of how you might find support if you are interested in pursuing a path of inquiry in your classroom. One suggestion the book offers is to study “the pioneers” and goes on to describe the inquiry approach implemented by three lead school districts. […]
Curious Classroom Book Study: Lean Into a Crisis
Chapter 9 Inside This Chapter While not the lightest chapter in this book, learning how to address crises using inquiry strategies, is certainly an important topic to consider and one that is rarely addressed. In most cases, we are on our own as to how to handle these situations and as Daniels mentions, “We live […]
Curious Classroom Book Study: Address Curricular Units with Mini-Inquiries
Chapter 8 Inside This Chapter Given the curricular demands in today’s education, most of us are not in a position to completely work from children’s questions. As nice as that might sound, we have standards we are required to meet. This chapter addresses ways we might do this while still using inquiry methods. One suggestion […]
Curious Classroom Book Study: Pursue Kids’ Questions with Mini Inquiries
Chapter 7 In This Chapter While chapter 3 encourages us to capture and honor kids’ questions, this chapter provides ideas and examples of how to help children use the research process to explore answers. It suggests that we might need to be responsive and a bit more in the moment in order to capitalize on […]
