Our goal this time in working together was to attain genuine student engagement. We know how to plan inquiries for students but we didn't want to do the planning for them. We wanted to invest them in the process and in making decisions around their learning.
Our driving question became:
Is there a way/ a process maybe to really 'get' students to a place of wanting to dig deeper in their learning?
Is it possible to get students in the junior grades to authentically read and write for the purpose of learning more and wanting to share their learning with others?
As Lucy West tweeted recently: "Reading and writing are always better when they are tools not goals.- Dave Pearson"
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