Presented at ISTE 2018 Chris Lehmann Science Leadership Academy Schools

1. Beyond Googling:
Building Conditions for
Structured Inquiry
Chris Lehmann
Science Leadership Academy
@chrislehmann

2. Whole School
Culture

3. • What is the difference between being “the
one” and being “one of many?”

4. Common Language of
Teaching and Learning

5. Common Inputs

6. Common Process

7. Common Outputs

8. Tests
Homework
Projects
Class Participation
Traditional
Classrooms:
Recall-Based

9. Projects
Homework
Class Participation
Tests & Quizzes
The Schools
We Need:
Understanding-
Driven

10. How do you define inquiry?
Getting Started:

11. Process

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

13. Inquiry Develops:
Choice
Personalization
Relevance
Empowerment
Care

14. Inquiry Complicates:
Covering Content
Planning
Assessment

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

16. When Inquiry is Scary:

17. (the blank page)

18. How do we create enough
structure without becoming so
rigid that we cannot innovate?

19. Guided Inquiry

20. For example...
http://bit.ly/sla_units
http://bit.ly/ThingsTheyCarriedSLA
http://bit.ly/LinearSystemsSLA

21. Discussion:
To / For
v.
By / With

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

23. Really Big Question:
What else will change if your pedagogy
becomes more inquiry-driven?
What else will change if your entire
system becomes more inquiry-driven?

24. Using Tech:

25. Ubiquitous, Necessary
and Invisible

26. Discussion:
How can you use technology at every
phase (inquiry, research, collaboration,
presentation, reflection) of the inquiry
process to enable student learning?

27. Open Inquiry

28. Senior Capstone
http://bit.ly/SLACapstone
http://bit.ly/WynnCapstoneNew
http://bit.ly/LeoCapstone
http://bit.ly/LindseyCapstone

29. 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?

30. What are your walk-
away questions?

31. Join us:
Chris’ Blog
http://www.practicaltheory.org
Twitter: @chrislehmann
Science Leadership Academy
http://www.scienceleadership.org
EduCon 2019 -- Jan. 25-27, 2019
http://educon.org