Inquiry to Action Teams: Collaboration and Co-Planning

January 23, 2015

9:00-9:20 Community Builder:
Classification Game. As you come in write down three things that you would consider
passions, likes, or proclivities. Write down three things that you absolutely dislike.
Share your likes and dislikes with three-four people. Classify yourselves based on your likes
and dislikes. You are limited to two labels that contain no negative, prejudicial, or discriminatory
judgments.
Discuss: How did you determine your category? What was difficult about defining yourselves?
What, if anything was limiting?
9:20-10:30 Stations (pick 2):
1 - Tools for co-teaching
Select a resource to explore: Choice 1 or Choice 2
Use the Connect, Extend, Challenge template to process your thinking
Share and discuss with a partner
Make a commitment to try one new thing
2 - Planning workshop table:
Use model portfolio projects to design differentiated humanities instruction
alongside a unit
Use model individual or group alternate plans to design alternate instruction for
challenging behavior alongside whole class instruction
Use graphic organizers to inspire differentiation for entire units of study or
singular lesson plans
3 - Communication strategies
Read and discuss the communication strategies and friendly disagreeing skills
with a partner
Read each scenario and discuss possible disagreeing skills or communication
strategies that might be helpful in the given situation
Reflect: Which of these skills/strategies comes naturally to you? Which might you
find challenging? What will you go away and try?
10:30-10:40 Break
10:40-11:40

Map your dilemma: Creating Your Inquiry Board

First, read Strategies for Developing a Research Question

 Then, Using the data that you brought in this month, the unpacking your
dilemma work from last session, the materials provided, and your continuous thinking
around this issue, create a representation of what you would like to focus your inquiry
work on this year. Make sure that at the center of your you have clearly articulated the
question, dilemma, or hypothesis that you intend to be the focus of your work. Use your
other data, map, graphic organizer, and any other ideas you need to explain to flesh out
the components of your inquiry.
11:40-12:10 Lunch
12:10-1:00
Using the post-its and direction sheet provided, comment on each of the three
designated areas of your colleagues inquiry boards.
1:00-1:45

Examine Feedback and Create an Action Plan

Take this time to look through the post-its in each of the three designated areas
for your own inquiry board. Based on your own sense of where you are with this work
and the feedback from your peers decide if you would rather:
1) Revise your inquiry focus,
2) Begin to design your inquiry project including next steps, data collection, and
anticipated outcomes
Next, use the Action Planning Template to organize and plan.

1:45-2:00 Homework, Housekeeping, Take-aways