Category : The Process

Hello from Westborough High School, Westborough Massachusetts! In the early days of teaching, I learned quickly that letting students ask questions – that I didn’t know the answer to –

When I learned how effective Guided Inquiry could be, I got excited about planning a GID-based writing workshop. I focused on Reconstruction because it’s the setting for my book, but the

Yesterday I invited you to experience the “Open” stage of the award-winning GID unit developed by two librarians and a social studies/language arts teacher at Carver Middle School in Chester,

A.B. Westrick here. I’m the author of BROTHERHOOD (Penguin Young Readers). If you’d told me a few years ago that I’d be writing and speaking about GID, I might have

Wow! what an amazing learning experience for myself and my students. I am so proud of them, they worked hard, and remained positive and enthusiastic. The students all wanted to

Some of our HOT questions are: *What in the atmosphere controls the amount of snowfall? Is there a way to manipulate it and change the snowfall? *How can we manipulate

Today we are working on our H.O.T questions! We had to think really hard and Mrs. Reinagel had to ok it. We had to research and answer our question. My

Hi, my name is Katina and my partner is Lexi our topic is Space. We chose space because we want to find out what’s beyond our world. During Immersion we

Our topic (Camden, Logan, Daniel, Matthew) is electricity, we chose electricity because we want to learn more about how it impacts our world. During the Immerse stage, we skimmed some

I mentioned in my first post this week that I’ve been traveling a little and seeing GID in action.  One place that I had the pleasure to visit was Saint