Collaborative Inquiry

Design

Well-Structured

Ill-Structured

Collaboration

Dialogical Sharing

Breaking down barriers

Trust established between colleagues

Taking Action

Common Goals

Asking thoughtful questions

Reflection/Celebration

Risk-Taking

Acknowledge teachers as experts

Inquiry

Identify the problem of practice, and why?

Allow for teacher choice!

Develop a plan to investigate

Determine success criteria and evidence to be collected

Implement the plan

Analyze the evidence

Reflect on the learning

Learning throughout the entire process

Problem Solving

Domain Specific

Complexity

Abstractness

Context

Metacognition

Facilitator's Guide

is...

Relevant

Student learning guides inquiry

Collaborative

Teacher inquiry is a shared process

Reflectivve

Actions are informed by reflection

Iterative

Progressive understanding grows from cycles of inquiry

Reasoned

Analysis drives deep learning

Adaptive

Inquiry shapes practice and practice shapes inquiry

Reciprocal

Theory and practice connect dyanmically

Can be messy! It takes time

It's okay to move slowly

1. Problem Framing

Formulate Action Required

Develop an Inquiry Question

Relevant

Meaningful

2. Collecting Evidence

3. Analyzing Evidence

Form Conclusions

Identify Patterns and Themes

Classify

Organize

4.Celebrating and Sharing

Subtopic

Data

Enables Professional Learning

Needs to be Meaningful

Used to illuminate the status quo

Teachers need to be taughtt how to collect and analyze meaningful data

Student Success and Engagement

"Student Achievement is most influenced by classroom practice, and classroom practice, in turn, is most influenced by teacher learning." Katz & Dack, 2014

Student Learning and growth

Student Achievement

Student's adopt a CI mindset

Student empowerment

Opportunities for teacher leadership

Drives...

Determine next practice

How do we increase task persistence and effort in order to increase problem solving success?

How can we streamline data collection and sharing without creating extra work for teachers? How do we make data meaningful to our classroom teachers?

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How do we effectively teach domain specific problem solving skills?

How do we use the collaborative inquiry model to effectively increase student engagement and achievement?

Floating topic

Burning Questions

How do we use technology effectively, or rather Collaboration 2.0 tools, to increase teacher collaboration, thereby increasing student engagement and achievement and learning?

How can we use technology to streamline data collection and sharing without creating extra work for teachers? What are the best applications or online tools for this?

*How do we create a balance of using technology to support collaboration in schools and classrooms while also teaching our students important skills such as public speaking, engagement in thoughtful face-to-face discussions and interactions?

Group Research Question: How can educators effectively integrate a culture of inquiry and collaboration in a school setting?

Guided by experts, admin and consultants

Effective CI takes place at the nexus of dialogical sharing, taking action and reflecting (DeLuca et al, 2015)

Development of a learning community amongst teachers

Floating topic

Teacher's Professional Learning

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