What systems encourage students to have academic conversations and how do those conversations impact learning?

Is there a topic that you would like to learn more about that is not already offered in the Professional Learning Portal? This is your chance to earn up to 20 clock hours for your own exploration of a topic of your choice; choose your own adventure and design your own learning plan!

Explore the importance of collaborative conversations in enhancing learning.

Explore the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Principals to Action: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All sections on Facilitating Meaningful Mathematical Discourse and Posing Purposeful Questions and consider implications to practice.

In the era without stem questions, learn where you can start when writing your own questions that push students back into the text to closely read.

Use the standards to write questions that help students dig deep into a complex text.

When going on a half-day learning walk to visit other classrooms, use this module to guide the planning and reflection and earn clock hours for your exploration.

Explore ways different instructors engage and empower students through the questions they ask.

Learn about and apply the Three Big Questions that will drive students to read science texts with purpose and a meaning-making stance. Completing this module will require you to have a copy of the book Reading Nonfiction: Notice and Note by Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst.

How do we teach students to generate their own higher level questions, specifically about texts they read?

Explore the types of questions that engage students and encourage student-to-student discourse.

As we updated our list of recommended titles for our Elementary HiCap Booklist in 2020, our team felt it may also be helpful to have a tool to support students' discussions to go to a deeper level. We have purchased each elementary building sets of Depth and Complexity Student icon cards and a discussion starter spinner through the Center for Depth and Complexity, J Taylor Education. This module is intended to be an introduction to these tools and get you started in thinking about how you may use them with your HiCap cluster, or your whole class, to push their thinking and discussion in new ways - hopefully, deeper and more complex ways!

Would you like to help students engage with images around them (whether artwork, political cartoons or illustrations) while also having a productive conversation? Explore the Visual Thinking Strategy here.

Explore the concept of Depth of Knowledge (DOK) and how it relates to the questions we need to be asking our students to prepare them for the level of rigor expected.

WIDA is our state's partner in supporting and assessing Multilingual Learners. This e-workshop is accessible for anyone in Washington for the 22-23 school year and has the following learning targets: Recognize the benefits of giving students tasks to solve together and time to exchange ideas about their reasoning. Reflect on and leverage good reasoning-focused tasks. Plan ways to support multilingual learners in becoming increasingly effective as they use language to express and co-construct mathematical ideas with others.

WIDA is our state's partner in supporting and assessing Multilingual Learners. This e-workshop is accessible for anyone in Washington for the 22-23 school year and has the following learning targets: recognize sensemaking opportunities in science learning activities evaluate the relevance of a phenomenon to students’ interests and lived experiences identify strategies to facilitate multilingual learners’ contributions to scientific sensemaking identify instructional strategies that expand language repertoires through sensemaking

WIDA is our state's partner in supporting and assessing Multilingual Learners. This e-workshop is accessible for anyone in Washington for the 22-23 school year and has the following learning targets: Identify ways to leverage multilingual learners’ assets to support their learning in the inquiry-based approaches for social studies. Recognize the benefits of using an inquiry approach in social studies to strengthen disciplinary reasoning and skills. Investigate questions, tasks, and sources as a way to support multilingual learners in becoming increasingly effective as they use language to make meaning in an inquiry.