Questioning: The Key to Unlocking the Power of Inquiry in Social Studies

Questioning: The Key to Unlocking the Power of Inquiry in Social Studies

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Mar 3, 2022 3:30 PM -
Mar 3, 2022 4:30 PM

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To practice inquiry in social studies, educators must craft powerful questions AND help students build their own questioning power. Join us as we explore this essential building block of inquiry.

With special guests Warren Berger (Journalist and Author), Sarah Westbrook (Director of Professional Learning, The Right Question Institute), and Anthony Sievert (Learning Experience Architect, inquirED).

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Join teachers and education leaders from around the world by registering for our Spring webinar series: The Steps Toward Inquiry in Social Studies. We’ll explore how complex questions, student-led tasks, and diverse sources make up the essential steps of every social studies inquiry.

Presenters:

Warren Berger, innovation expert and questionologist has studied hundreds of the world’s foremost innovators, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers to learn how they ask questions, generate original ideas, and solve problems. He is the author or co-author of more than 12 books on innovation, including the bestseller A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas and the internationally acclaimed GLIMMER, named one of Businessweek’s Best Innovation and Design Books of the Year. His writing appears in Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Psychology Today, and The New York Times. He lives in New York.

Anthony Sievert serves as a secondary Social Studies teacher, an assessment specialist, an instructional coach, and a Social Studies Curriculum Specialist for a large, urban school district. Through these experiences, Tony has created, curated, and facilitated the adoption and implementation of inquiry-based social studies curricular resources at all grade levels. He earned his B.A. in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Tony joined the inquirED team in the Summer of 2021.

Sarah Westbrook is the Right Question Institute’s Director of Professional Learning. As a former high school English teacher, Sarah is committed to amplifying and uplifting the innovative work educators do every day. She partners with schools and districts to design in-person and virtual professional learning on the Question Formulation Technique. She also leads the online course, “Teaching Students How to Ask Their Own Questions…”  offered through the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the principal investigator on a Library of Congress grant that will support educators, especially those working with traditionally underrepresented students, to facilitate student-driven, inquiry-based primary source learning.