Notebook Invitations, a Carousel Walk, and 3-2-1 Reflections: A Living KWL and Formative Assessment for Instructional Design

For roughly two and half weeks in August, my seniors have been mucking around and exploring topics related to the future of work through reading frenzies, reading rumbles, birds of feather groups formation with compass points discussion and question planning, and a philosophical chairs discussion. The Writer's Notebook Invitation This past Wednesday, August 30, we …

Igniting Inquiry with Writer’s Notebooks, Conversations, Reading Stations, and See-Think-Wonder

This week (Tuesday and Wednesday) we have kicked off our first unit of study (early American literature) and the overarching question for our course, "What is an American?"  We will take an inquiry stance on this big question and think about the range of possibilities through the lenses of texts we read from the canon …