Day Two Agenda8:30 – 8:45 Opening Comments & Feedback8:45 – 9:45 Co-constructing Meaning Underlying ‘Inquiry’9:45 – 10:45 Break Out sessions

10:45 – 11:00 Break11:00- 12:00 Team Sharing and SIM plan work

12:00 – 12:45 Lunch12:45 – 1:30 Monitoring1:30 – 2:15 Team Dialogue & SIM plan work2:15 – 2:30 Feedback and Closing Comments

Inquiry

Co-Constructing our shared understanding of inquiry

“because CURIOSITY keeps leading us down new paths”

A Story of Wondering

Inquiry – a Google Search

• “Inquiry is a dynamic process of being open to wonder and puzzlement and coming to know and understand the world.”

• “Inquiry is the study into a worthy question.”

• “Inquiry is the authentic, real work that a community might tackle.”

Please take 3-5 minutes to write your understanding of inquiry.

What does “inquiry” mean to you?

Share your personal definition or understanding of inquiry with your SIM team.

As each member shares, one recorder will document words/phrases that define inquiry.

How does your SIM team define inquiry?

Connecting our Understanding to Research

This is a jigsaw activity where you will go out and learn more about inquiry, and return to your SIM team and share what you learned.

What does research tell us?

At your table please discuss:Did anyone notice/read/find out something that might help us understand inquiry?

Did the research support your theory? Have you changed or added to your understanding of inquiry?

Knowledge Building Discourse

Does this Wordle represent our regional thinking about inquiry?

Does anyone have something to build on our understanding?

A final thought…..

Our Regional Understanding

Adding to the Thinking

Dialoguing and Co-Learning

9:45 – 10:45Individually, select one of the following three options.

These breakout sessions are different region by region. Materials are posted within the breakout tab at sim.abel.yorku.ca

Within Teams 11:00 – 12:00

Take turns sharing around the table ideas from the breakout sessions that might support your SIMplementation..

Continue to work on the SIM plans

Lunch 12:00 – 12:45

Everyone is a Researcher

As you listen, consider…•The monitoring, reflecting/revising/innovating that you are considering within your SIM plan.

•Within your context, are there aspects of Halton DSB’s work might add to your SIM team’s monitoring? Discuss.

Adding to the Thinking

Some Considerations

Jeff Blackwell, Associate Director, Halton DSB

Closing Comments

See you for Winter SIM, 2013