KQED News Mind/Shift – Katrina Schwartz
“On the surface, Strategic Inquiry sounds like standard professional learning community (PLC) work: Teachers get together, look at student work, and design interventions to target skill deficits. But Scharff Panero points to subtle but important differences at the core of what makes Strategic Inquiry effective. Two things are especially important: the size of the problem the group works on and using student work as the evidence for both making instructional tweaks and determining if they worked. Assumptions about why kids can’t do something are actively discouraged in the process.” (more)