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Best Practices in Developing Student Inquiry

• A professional development school partnership: Conflict and collaboration
  The Professional Develpment School (PDS) is one of the most prominent, compelling, and recent models of teacher education reform. For decades efforts have been made to reform the U.S.
• Asking Critical and Creative Questions
  This web site draws upon the work of Seymour Sarson (1982) in describing the patterns of thinking evident in most classrooms. It then offers strategies from Wasserman and Ivany (1988)to provide more opportunities for critical and creative thinking in classrooms.
• Elevation Educational Consulting
  Works with individual teachers, schools, districts to evaluate and improve literacy programs and instruction.
• Illustrating Inquiry Learning
  An overview of various ways in which students can engage in inquiry experiences, with links to web sites with specific examples of inquiry in practice.
• Illustrating Inquiry Learning
  Descriptions of different forms of classroom inquiry, with links to sites with specific examples of practice.