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Planning for inquiry can be overwhelming for new teachers to the PYP. My hope is that this guide helps to support your journey and gives you some practical things to consider that won't take a lot of time or preparation. It's a mindset difference. Be sure to connect to the other guides "Define Your Inquiry" and "Think about Inquiry", as they set the stage for this guide.

Now more than ever, we need to find our passion, so we can transfer it into our work life. Regardless of your role within a school, we all have passions and dreams that we hold in our hearts. Now is the time to guide your passions into reality through the Golden Circle by Simon Sinek. This guide has been enhanced to provide more step-by-step directions on how to take your ideals and put them into quantifiable goals that can be monitored and eventually shared with the school community. Your l

Have you heard of Pop-Up Studio: Responsive Teaching for Today's Learners by Misty Paterson? You need to get this book and check out our reflections from #tcc book club. It's THE book that explains the relationship between agency, inquiry, and concepts in an easy format. For more information: https://popupstudioed.com/

In a recent chat with Trevor MacKenzie, the author of Dive into Inquiry and the Inquiry Mindset, he discussed four factors that made learning more agentic. This infographic explores those four factors in more detail.

Welcome to your Inquiry Golden Circle. This is the "HOW" part of the process, where we will explore the many ways to engage with inquiry. We will use the inquiry thinking terms: engaging, challenging, relevant, and significant to enhance the learning and questioning.

Agency is the greatest gift we can give our students. It's an act that signifies that we view our students as capable young people who can create meaning from their self-driven learning. This requires faith and a bit of scaffolding. This guide will walk you through the steps of using agency daily and how to empower your students even more,

Do your students know the difference between agency and action and their relationship? In this guide, we will use a picture game to deepen student understanding of these concepts and help them transfer learning to new situations. Have fun!

En 2015 descubrí el vídeo “Cómo grandes líderes inspiran a la acción”, de Simon Sinek. Este vídeo cambió mi visión sobre mi rol como docente. Pasé por un tiempo de reflexión y de mirar de cerca los temas que me apasionan, cómo lo mostraba a diario a mis alumnos y qué necesitaba para que todo llegara a fruición. Al pasar por este proceso me di cuenta de que alimentar nuestras pasiones nos ayuda a superar los obstáculos que vamos encontrando por nuestro camino y que nada tienen que ver con nuestro

How do you get students to take authentic action initiated by their learning? This guide will focus on different levels of action your students can take to scaffold their thinking. We will explore: Actions that change our daily behaviors through concrete actionsChoices that determine if between action within and action beyondActions that are at a higher levelStudent-driven action is the highest form of assessment. It shows us what students understand and can apply from their learning.

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Have you considered how to redesign your library space to reflect the PYP? Here's an overview of how this may be done.

Here are some reflection posters from the #tcc book club exploration of Dive into Inquiry by Trevor MacKenzie

Ever wonder what is the difference between project-based learning and the PYP? Here's an infographic that compares both program and their shared features.