England - Whole Education Network

Whole Education is a dynamic network of schools and partners who are united in their belief that all children and young people deserve a full rounded education – including the knowledge, skills and qualities that help them thrive in life, learning and work. An important part about Whole Education, is that their schools and Trusts are devoted to sharing with and learning from each other as a way to achieve this. Whole Education is proud to support schools in England using the internationally recognized Spirals of Inquiry model, originated by Judy Halbert & Linda Kaser of British Columbia, Canada.

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How to utilize the enquiry framework to support all children as they return to classes during the pandemic:

Whole Education’s Spiral Initiative (2019)

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Whole Education’s 2019 Annual Conference, Celebration and Sharing Event:

One of the actions which an art teacher took as part of her enquiry. She realized that her KS3 pupils believed you were either good or bad at art so she invited a sixth form student to come and present to the class a series of self portraits from age 11 to age 17 to show how practicing and improving meant she got a lot better!
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One of the actions which an art teacher took as part of her enquiry. She realized that her KS3 pupils believed you were either good or bad at art so she invited a sixth form student to come and present to the class a series of self portraits from age 11 to age 17 to show how practicing and improving meant she got a lot better!

This teacher was looking at how to improve pupil engagement with words - it led her to develop a parent reading program alongside 'word detectives' where students seek out interesting words or phrases and then use them in their own writing the following week - she was so positive and really inspired some of the other people to trial it in their classes!
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This teacher was looking at how to improve pupil engagement with words - it led her to develop a parent reading program alongside 'word detectives' where students seek out interesting words or phrases and then use them in their own writing the following week - she was so positive and really inspired some of the other people to trial it in their classes!

This teacher was presenting his work on aspirations. The scanning phase revealed a gender imbalance in student aspirations (e.g. builders for boys and ballerinas for girls). They have been doing some work around helping pupils to see lots of variety of potential jobs and helping them to make informed choices by bringing local people in etc.
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This teacher was presenting his work on aspirations. The scanning phase revealed a gender imbalance in student aspirations (e.g. builders for boys and ballerinas for girls). They have been doing some work around helping pupils to see lots of variety of potential jobs and helping them to make informed choices by bringing local people in etc.