For our last week of discussion, we ask that you read chapter 6 which discusses publication. For this chapter, please feel free to leave your own thinking about the chapter or use one of the prompts listed below. Thank you!

Share your thinking about the chapter.  You may want to consider one or more of the following prompts below:

• What connections did you make to Chapter 6?
• How might you find opportunities to publish, or encourage your colleagues and students to do so?
• What inquiry topic might you develop or deepen? Who will you invite to join you?
• How might you engage or continue to use inquiry in your practice?

 
​General Prompts to post with each chapter:

• What was meaningful to you?
• How can you use this in your own practice?
• How does the content connect and apply to your practice?

Thank you for your participation thus far! We have enjoyed reading your thoughts about inquiry!  For this week, we will discuss chapters four and five which focus on data.  Please feel free to share your thinking about these chapters and/or use some of the prompts below. 

Specific Chapter Prompts: 
Share your thinking about the chapters.  You may want to consider one or more of the following prompts below:

• What connections did you make to Chapters 4 & 5?
• Can you share how these chapters may have changed your thinking about data collection and/or data analysis?
• Did either of the poems at the ends of the chapters particularly resonate with you?
• Reflect on what was meaningful to you and your practice from these chapters.  Possibly discuss patterns and analysis conducted in your own practice. 

General Prompts: 

• What was meaningful to you?
• How can you use this in your own practice?
• How does the content connect and apply to your practice?

We look forward to reading your responses!  Thank you! 

For this week, we will continue our discussion about chapter 3 regarding research questions. Please feel free to post a response to Week 4 or add to a thread from discussions that occurred in the previous weeks.  

Thank you for your participation! 

For this week, we will explore chapter 3 which focuses on developing a question. Consider responding to one or more of the following prompts:

Chapter specific prompts: 

• What connections did you make to Chapter 3?
• Share an inquiry question that you have created, using one of the question stems at the end of the chapter.
• Comment on one or more of the scenarios.

• After reading the chapter, how might you use the “reflect, connect, and apply” strategy? 

General prompts: 

• What was meaningful to you?
• How can you use this in your own practice?
• How does the content connect and apply to your practice?

We look forward to hearing your thinking about this week's content! Thank you!

Thank you for another great week of discussion about action research!  This week's discussion will be focused on Chapter 2. Below you will find some specific and general prompts to help guide your thinking.  These are only suggestions.  We welcome your own thinking as well! 
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Specific prompts to the chapter to possibly consider:

• What connections did you make to Chapter 2?
• Did one or more of the scenarios resonate with you? If so, can you explain why?
• Did this chapter lead you to thinking about your own possible entry point to inquiry, in education or another facet of your life?

General prompts to possibly consider: 

• What was meaningful to you?
• How can you use this in your own practice?
• How does the content connect and apply to your practice?

Thank you!  

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Thank you for your participation thus far!  We are looking forward to a continued collaborative discussion in which we share our thinking about the text. 

​For week 2, share your thinking about Chapter 1.  After reading the chapter, consider responding to one or more of the following prompts or share your ideas with a general prompt. 

Prompts specific to chapter 1:

• What connections did you make from the Preface and Chapter 1?
• What does it mean to you to approach education with an inquiry stance?
• How do you reflect on your practice, or encourage others to do so?
• After reading the chapter, how might you use the “reflect, connect, and apply” strategy? 

General prompts: 

• What was meaningful to you?
• How can you use this in your own practice?
• How does the content connect and apply to your practice?

Thank you again for your participation! 

Please take a few moments to introduce yourself and share about your understanding and/or experiences with action research. 

We look forward to hearing from you!
​Janice & Meg 

January 18 – February 29
 Attention, attention!  Read all about it - Action research and advancing English Language Arts!  Join us for several weeks of a collegial conversation focused on English Language Arts and how to use inquiry to advance students’ learning.  All educators are welcome - elementary, secondary, college level, and teacher educators.  
 
We will provide a suggested schedule for responding to the chapters in the book, because some people find that helpful.
​For others, it’s more appealing to read at their own pace and respond to points that stand out along the way. Either way is fine; this is meant to be an informal, collegial conversation. For the same reasons, we will include some suggestions for ideas to respond to, but any and all responses are welcome, whether they are specifically to the book, to connections from you own experience, or responses to another commenter. Please feel free to share your own thinking, use the general prompts, or reply to the specific prompts for each chapter.  We look forward to hearing your thinking!
 
~ Janice and Meg