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For me, at first, it was bikes. But whatever it is, find a thing you love, and pursue it. Do it alone or do it with others. Do it forever or just for a few days.

Birds as a Passion Project

Here is a list of nine ways to think about your direction in life. When I was a kid, I

Student-led inquiry is one of the best ways for students to learn and retain content, and for them to

Inquiry-Based Learning: The Basics Think of it this way: inquiry can be defined as the process of asking a

Learn the fundamentals about teaching in an Inquiry-based learning methodology.

Learn the specifics about teaching Inquiry-Based Learning in your Social Studies classroom.

The scientific method of asking a question, doing background research, forming a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis by designing and completing

With so many diversity and inclusion strategies out there, what really works? Beagle Learning CEO, Turner Bohlen, shares research and proven best practices.

Read our easy four steps on incorporating open inquiry into your curriculum!

Listen to this podcast about different and easy ways to incorporate Inquiry into K-12 classrooms!

Read on how to level up your research skills and to leave old strategies behind!

Read one professor's journey from lecture to inquiry-based learning in gender studies. Pick up her strategies and learn the benefits of inquiry-based learning.

According to research by Freeman S, et al. when using active learning compared to traditional lecture students’ average failure rate decreased by 12% and performance on identical or comparable tests improved by nearly half of the standard deviation of the test scores (an effect size of 0.47).

Learn more about a new approach to undergraduate education, in which students are taught the key life skills that are all too often reserved for graduate school.

We think the secret to learning, the secret to progress, the secret to leading, is for the learner to ask great questions. Learn more about how questions drive us forward. Because without the right question, we’ll ever ever get to the right answer.

I now cringe whenever I hear a speaker say, “Any questions?” Few of us are ever jumping out of our

This is the fourth in a series of blogs on on questions in the classroom, following Turning Around Question-Asking

Three years ago I was nervously facing my first experimental class, a class at the end of which I planned

Mastering existing content is no longer enough; in today’s world we also need to master the process of learning,

Inquiry-based learning, project-based learning, and exploratory learning are terms we often hear today. Even if we don’t

Reprinted with permission from Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures (2017) Ed. Ed Finn and Joey Eschrich

Mathematics is often seen as the epitome of a study of hard facts: answers are either right or wrong, concrete

We all may truly want the same things for our students. A big question started as a little doubt, a