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NWP Social Practices: Learn

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Learn About Inquiry Programming

By National Writing Project

For National Writing Project teachers, learning, often through inquiry processes, is central to how we examine and transform our classroom practice.

Start a Reading Group

By National Writing Project

For National Writing Project teachers, learning, often through inquiry processes, is central to how we examine and transform our classroom practice.

Use Findings to Transform Practice

By National Writing Project

For National Writing Project teachers, learning, often through inquiry processes, is central to how we examine and transform our classroom practice.

Share Findings

By National Writing Project

For National Writing Project teachers, learning, often through inquiry processes, is central to how we examine and transform our classroom practice.

Wrestle Together with Ethical Implications of Teacher Inquiry

By National Writing Project

For National Writing Project teachers, learning, often through inquiry processes, is central to how we examine and transform our classroom practice.

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For National Writing Project teachers, learning, often through inquiry processes, is central to how we examine and transform our classroom practice.

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Teachers with an inquiry mindset are constantly asking, “What works and for whom?” We know that there is no magic bullet when it comes to effective teaching and meaningful learning, but we are committed to learning from others, collecting and examining many kinds of data, and using what we learn to improve our teaching and our students’ learning.

In fact, our belief in teachers as knowledge makers, not just knowledge consumers, sets us apart from many professional development organizations. We value the hyper-local knowledge that teachers produce through systematic and sustained teacher research, and we provide opportunities, both face-to-face and in digital space, for teachers to share their successes, their failures, the tools they develop, and the new wonderings that are bound to emerge.

Local site directors are faced with the challenge of seeding and supporting a rich culture of inquiry in their local contexts. This collection is a curated set of experiences and resources that you can use to develop teacher inquiry programming at your site. The experiences suggested in this collection are types of programming you might build and facilitate, and the resources are culled from NWP’s Knowledge Base to support that programming. These resources include practical guidance, tools and protocols to use or modify, as well as stories of how local sites have approached, designed, and reflected on their teacher inquiry work.