Primary sources are so important to developing #HistoricalThinking! No better way to draw students in than to tap into their natural curiosity! #SocialStudies #InquiryDesignModel #ReasoningRoutines @NCSSNetwork @theVaSSLC

✅ Chapter 5 is a Wrap! This weekend, I wrapped up Chapter 5: How Can Inquiry Drive Religious Literacy? — part of my forthcoming @RoutledgeEOE, Bringing Religious Literacy to the Classroom: Global Competence for K–12 Social Studies. This chapter connects the Inquiry Design Model (IDM) with the Cultural Studies Method to show how inquiry can deepen understanding of religion as lived, diverse, and dynamic. It also features IDM blueprints of my new World Religious Traditions inquiry units (Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Sikhi), which help students challenge stereotypes and build empathy through evidence-based exploration. Inquiry is how curiosity becomes understanding. 🌍✏️ #ReligiousLiteracy #C3Framework #InquiryDesignModel #SocialStudies #GlobalCompetence #RoutledgeEducation

Over a century after the Scopes “Monkey Trial,” we’re still exploring the intersection of science, religion, and democracy in American education. My article, “Why Is the Scopes Trial Still Relevant to Public Education Today? An IDM Unit Plan,” appears in the Oct 2025 issue of @NCSSNetwork Social Education. The unit invites students to examine the Scopes Trial through inquiry, evidence, and empathy — asking what it means to teach controversial topics responsibly in a diverse democracy. #SocialEducation #TheScopesTrial #InquiryDesignModel #ReligiousLiteracy #InquiryInAction #SocialStudiesEducation #TeachSocialStudies #ScopesTrial100 📷 Photo: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7091 / SIA 2007-0124 (educational, non-commercial use). Image shown on screen with article in Social Education, Oct 2025.

📚 Excited to be guest teaching my Inquiry Design Model (IDM) unit — “Why is the Scopes Trial Still Relevant to Public Education Today?” — this week! This inquiry invites students to explore how the 1925 Scopes Trial continues to shape and reflect today’s conversations about science, religion, and academic freedom in schools. Thrilled that this unit will also be featured in the October issue of Social Education from the @NCSSNetwork! #SocialStudies #C3Framework #ReligiousLiteracy #InquiryDesignModel #ScopesTrial

📚 Saturday writing session = deep dive into Chapter 5: “How Can Inquiry Drive Religious Literacy?” Secondary Strategies that Work for my text, Bringing Religious Literacy to the Classroom with @RoutledgeEOE. Working through the Inquiry Design Model (IDM) units I’ve created— connecting compelling questions, formative tasks, and informed action to make religion become lived religion in the classroom. 🌍✏️ #ReligiousLiteracy #InquiryDesignModel #C3Framework #SocialStudies

How do you combine the #QFT and Primary Sources @TeachingLC to elevate student voice in the #InquiryDesignModel? If you missed us at NCHE, visit: bit.ly/nche2024links. Thanks to Dr. Ann Canning, Dr. David Hicks, Sara Evers, & Kelley Brown for the collab! @vaTechSOE @historyed

Week 1 of #PBVUSD #ELS2023 with our amazing Jr. High ELA teachers has wrapped! The conversations & productive struggle around literacy & the #inquirydesignmodel was awesome! Thanks to my fellow presenters @shellytiffin @BlairDavenport0 Bailey Torres, and Diane Taylor!

What an incredible group of people to launch the #InquiryDesignModel with 🔥 thanks to everyone who came!

Looking forward to incorporating my learning from @saewthinking by Theresa Tillotson & @mskelseytoms into my work on #C3 IDM blueprints, especially in scaffolding formative assessments! 😀🙏 #sschat #ncsocialstudiesmatters #C3teachers #inquirydesignmodel

The #IDM Summer Institute starts July 11! Join your @C3Teachers community online, learn the #InquiryDesignModel, and craft your own classroom-ready inquiries. Registration closes soon! Register before the deadline: hubs.li/Q01gsyw50

Use visual thinking as a strategy to build an argument!! #FISDSocialStudies @FISDsocstudies #InquiryDesignModel

We completed our “What Should I Do About Litter in the Environment?” #InquiryDesignModel unit. 🌎 I want to thank @asbarnes from @Accokeek for reviewing and improving the unit.💕 It has been wonderful to see the students learn, grow, and become better stewards of the environment!

It's conference season for me! Next week on Friday, we've got the #NWAIS Fall Educator's Conference, of which I've been a part of planning. Then, Saturday, I present at the #UtahCouncilForTheSocialStudies about the #InquiryDesignModel. I am really excited for both events!

Why do we need rules? Can rules help us stay safe? Responding to various scenarios with our GO and STOP signs! #inquirydesignmodel

Huzzah, #UCSS (Utah council for the social studies) will have me present about using the #inquirydesignmodel #IDM with Utah educators. Stoke level is high!

A4: I am hoping to present at the state’s #ncss affiliated conference to share my experience and advice as learned from my work with the #inquirydesignmodel and with Holocaust education. I’m wondering how I can make this stuff useful for my in-school colleagues. #sschat

Today is #NCSS #C3Teachers #InquiryDesignModel institute. I'm only doing one of these two days of PD, but I'm grateful that I am here for Day 1. Love working on #IDM stuff! I'm on a design team with geography teachers - I categorized myself based on my biggest weakness...

When implementing more inquiry-based instruction is one of your professional goals, you drive to #OKCPS to attend an #inquirydesignmodel PD. Thanks @OKCPSSocStudies for the invite!

Anna Dwyer has worked diligently to learn, incorporate & refine an #inquirydesignmodel for her History and Science content and also integrates #culturallyresponsivepractices every step of the way. YOU ROCK @msdwyer134 ! @RES_Roadrunners @glndschools

SDW: Leadership and Learning: Elementary Social Studies Update: sdwleadershiplearning.blogsp… @SDWduallanguage @HadassaYola #InquiryDesignModel