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Confessions of a PYP Teacher — 168 episodes

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C168 (Book Club) John Dewey: Traditional vs. Progressive Education

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C167 (Book Club): Experience and Education Introduction

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C166: Well-Being for All

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C165: Trauma

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C164: Learner Boreout

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C163: Teacher Boreout

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C162: Learner Burnout

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C161: Teacher Burnout

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C160: Stress Overload

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C159: Why is Anxiety so Important?

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C158: Why am I so Anxious?

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C157: Panic and its Impact on Learning

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C156: Let's Not Have a Panic Attack

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C155: Facing our Fears (Part 2)

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C154: Facing our Fears

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C153: Don’t be a Worrywart

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C152: The Journey Towards Well-Being

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C151: Specialist and Supporting Teachers (Challenge)

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C150: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Conceptual Understanding

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C149: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Understanding the Role of Conceptual Understanding

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C148: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: International Mindedness 2.0

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C147: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Seeking Ways to Show International Mindedness

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C146: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Learner Profile 2.0

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C145: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Leaning into the Learner Profile

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C144: Specialist and Support Teachers (Challenge): Bring about Agency and Inquiry in our Thinking

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C143: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Inquiry 2.0

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C142: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Inspiring Inquiry

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C141: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Agency 2.0

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C140: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Bringing about Agency

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C139: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Honoring the Unique Role

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C138: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Myths about our Roles

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C137 (Book Club): Growing Brain Power, Yes Please! (pg 122-151)

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C136 (Book Club): Reshaping the Academic Mindset (pg 108-120)

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C135 (Book Club): Creating an Alliance with our Learners (pg 88 -107)

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C134 (Book Club): Supporting Culturally Responsive Relationships with our Learners (pg 72-87)

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C133 (Book Club): Continuing to Become Aware of our Actions (pg 59-69)

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C132 (Book Club): Becoming a Culturally Responsive Educator (pg 52-60)

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C131 (Book Club): How Culture Effects the Brain (pg 36-51)

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C130 (Book Club): Understanding the Power of Cultural Roots (pg 21-35)

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C129 (Book Club): From Pedagogy of Poverty to Ready for Rigor (pgs 14- 20)

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C128 (Book Club): Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain (pg 1-13)

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C127 (Application): Making our Classrooms reflect the PYP journey

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C126 (Application): Lessons from The Expert Effect

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C125 (Application): Local and Global Inquiry in our Context

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C124 (Application): Using Personal Inquiry in our Practice

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C123 (Application): Our Learning Journey with ChatGPT

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C122: How do learners visually represent their unit of inquiry journey?

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C121: How do we guide learning through differentiation?

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C120: How are we celebrating student voice through agency?

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C119: What key and related concepts live here?

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C118: How are our walls interactive and transdisciplinary?

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C117: How do we show the expectations of a school within the classroom?

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C116: How do we tickle our learner’s brains through our teaching and classroom walls?

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C115: Creating a PYP Classroom Success Criteria

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C114 (Book Club): Teach others as experts (pg 131-148)

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C113 (Book Club): Students become the experts (pgs 91-130)

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C112 (Book Club): Talking with Experts (pgs 59-90)

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C111 (Book Club): Learning from Experts Near & Far (Pgs 29-58)

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C110 (Book Club): Laying the foundation for the Expert Effect

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C109: Local and Global Inquiry in the Early Years

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C108: Local and Global Inquiry for Specialist and Supporting Teachers

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C107: The Commonality of the Human Experience

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C106: The Story Behind Local and Global Inquiry

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C105: Going Local to Global (Part 2)

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C104: From Local to Global (Part 1)

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C103: Finding Experts in our Local Community

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C102: Going from a Content Standard to a Local Issue

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C101: The Properties of a Local Inquiry

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C100 (Book Club): My Personal Inquiry Journey

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C99 (Book Club): Reflecting on the Process & Taking Action

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C98 (Book Club): Managing Personal Inquiries (Section 4)

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C97 (Book Club): Documenting, Reflecting, Assessing, Sharing & Action (3.6-3.7)

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C96 (Book Club): Supporting, Conferring, and Sustaining the Process (3.4-3.5)

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C95 (Book Club): Lighting the Spark of Personal Inquiry to Proposing, Pitching, and Planning (3.1-3.3)

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C94 (Book Club): Designing and Assessing our Inquiry Framework (2.6-2.8)

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C93 (Book Club): Creating a Culture for Personal Inquiry (2.1-2.5)

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C92 (Book Club): Why not PI, Sharing pictures of Practice, and Setting your Own Goal (1.4-1.6)

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C91 (Book Club): What and Why of Personal Inquiry (1.1-1.3)

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C90 (Application): Playing with the ATL

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C89 (Application): Designing an Environment for Play

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C88 (Application): Shaping Learning through the Environment

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C87: Using Design Thinking with our Learners

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C86 (Challenge): Evolving our Practice with POWR

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C85 (Overview): How Do We Evolve Our Thinking?

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C84 (Challenge):- Creating a Prototype with the CME Model from Pop-Up Studio

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C83 (Overview): How Do We Create a Prototype?

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C82 (Challenge): Learning to Ideate with the 4A's from Pop-Up Studio

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C81 (Intro): What Does it Mean to Ideate?

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C80 (Intro & Challenge): Define Your Problem with the Four Agreements

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C79 (Challenge): Let's Empathize with the Four Agreements

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C78 (Intro): What Does it Mean to Empathize?

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C77: The Design Thinking Process

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C76: Play versus Playfulness

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C75: Engaging Play through a Conceptual Lesson Cycle

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C74: Play in the Early Years

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C73: The importance of Play

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C72: The Relationship between the Learning Environment and Play

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C71: Designing Other School Spaces

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C70: Designing for Learners with Disabilities

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C69: Designing for the Gifted Learner

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C68: Designing for the Language Learner

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C67: The Importance of Learning Space Design

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C66: What's in a Name?

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C65: Using Split-Screen Teaching to Spark Learning Goals

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C64: Split-Screen Teaching with ATLs and Learner Profile

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C63: Choosing Sub-Skills for our Units of Inquiry

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C62: Self-Management Skills for Homeroom (1-6); Specialist & Supporting

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C61: Self-Management Skills for Early Years (PK-K)

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C60: Social Skills for Specialists & Support

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C59: Social Skills for Elementary (1-6)

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C58: Social Skills for Early Years (PK-K)

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C57: Juneteenth (Giving a Voice to the Voiceless)

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C56: Communication Skills for Specialist & Support

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C55: Communication Skills for Elementary (1-6)

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C54: Communication Skills for Early Years (PK-K)

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C53: Research Skills for Specialists & Support

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C52: Research Skills for Elementary (1-6)

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C51: Research Skills for Early Years (PK-K)

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C50: Thinking Skills for Specialist/Support

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C49: Thinking Skills for Elementary (1-6)

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C48: Thinking Skills for Early Years (PK-K)

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C47: Understanding the ATL structure

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C46: Approaches to Learning Overview

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C45: Putting all the Pieces Together

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C44 (Challenge): Performing a SWOT Analysis

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C43 (Intro): Evaluating Transdisciplinary Learning

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C42 (Challenge): Transdisciplinary Learning Across the School

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C41 (Intro): Connecting with Specialist Teachers

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C40 (Challenge): Creating Transdisciplinary Connections with Standards

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C39 (Intro): Looking at Standards Differently

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C38 (Challenge): Unpacking the Themes in the POI

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C37 (Intro): Understanding the Transdisciplinary Theme Descriptors

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C36 (Challenge): How Transdisciplinary Looks and Feels

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C35 (Intro): Transdisciplinary Learning 101

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C34 (Application): Agency and Action

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C33 (Application): International Mindedness

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C32 (Application): The Learner Profile

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C31: Building Relationships with International Mindedness

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C30: Creating an Internationally Minded School Mission

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C29: Connecting Agency with International Mindedness

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C28: Fostering International Mindedness Daily

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C27: Connecting the Learner Profile with International Mindedness

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C26: Using the Learner Profile to Build School Culture

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C25: Guiding Behavior with the Learner Profile

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C24: Embedding the Learner Profile into the Learning and Teaching

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C23: A Time for Giving Thanks

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C22: Embedding the Learner Profile into the Learning Space

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C21: Learner Profile First Steps

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C20: Tackling Learner Profile Misconceptions

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C19: Framing of the PYP

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C18: Assessing Agency and Action

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C17: Taking Simple Actions Now

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C16: Putting Action Together with the Golden Circle

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C15: Unlocking Action at its Highest Level

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C14: The Road Between Agency and Action

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C13: Start Agency with 5 Easy Steps

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C12: Agency Can Go Deeper with the SDGs

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C11: Agency Deepens When We Take Ownership

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C10: Agency Thrives When There is Choice

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C9: Agency Requires our Unique Voice

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C8: Agency Drives Inquiry

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C7 (Challenge): Inquiry is a Process

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C6 (Challenge): Evidencing the Inquiry

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C5 (Challenge): Guiding the Inquiry

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C4 (Challenge): Asking the Right Questions

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C3 (Challenge): Inquiry Takes Careful Planning

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C2 (Challenge): Defining our Focus in Inquiry

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C1 (Challenge): Teaching Requires a Purpose