We Should Teach About Uncomfortable Ideas, Here’s How by Drew Perkins, Director of ThoughtStretchers Education How can we identify a democratically ideal set of principles to help us grow a culture of conversation? In my 15 years as a K-12 teacher, I rarely found...
The Importance of 'Bad' Questions In the quest to nurture students' ability to ask good questions, it's equally important to address the notion of 'bad' questions. Understanding what constitutes a less effective or poorly framed question can be just as instructive as...
What Traditionalists Get Wrong About Inquiry Teaching by Drew Perkins, Director of ThoughtStretchers Education In my work as a teacher of 15 years turned professional development consultant for 10 years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of students...
25 Deeper Learning Questions For Student Reflection by ThoughtStretchers Education staff, In the pursuit of knowledge rich inquiry can serve as a powerful guiding star. In this space, questions become the compass, steering our learning journey towards new horizons of...
How Inquiry Teaching Can Help Us Through Divided Times by Drew Perkins, Director of ThoughtStretchers Education Educators and education, in general, are increasingly getting swept into the morass of culture wars and polemic battles playing out in our media and...
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