Teachers in collaborative groups are categorizing inductively creating a Tree Map from questions they developed with Powerful Questions. They will create top level questions for each category. These top level questions, which combine background knowledge and inquisitive interest, could become the guiding questions in a student centered shared inquiry (Socratic Seminar). 

Teachers sharing reflections from the experience with doing Powerful Questions and the Inductive Categorization of the questions. 

Sentence Transformation for vocabulary development, fluency, recitation, context, meaning, and background knowledge together.

Performance from the National Urban Alliance professional development experience. Reflective practice is an important part of NUA’s collaboration with schools and school districts.

Teachers working collaboratively on developing Bridge Maps for analogies and relationships.

Students learning about their learning with NUA Executive Director Stefanie C. Baker.

Classroom demonstration of the Bridge Map (analogies and relationships) for patterns in phonics with teachers observing. We follow a Peer to Peer Coaching model that begins with a briefing, then the demonstration lesson (often video taped) followed by a debriefing. The debriefing follows the protocol of: positive observations; questions; takeaway to apply.