Kimberly Mitchell is a writer, workshop leader and speaker passionate about active learning and inquiry-based teaching practices. She teaches at the University of Washingtons College of Education and leads workshops for Inquiry Partners.

Kimberly has spent the last 26 years in a variety of education roles. She was a Senior Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation leading education strategy grants on the College Ready and Pacific NW teams and served as Director of Partner Engagement for Teach For All in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was Vice Principal at Chief Sealth International HS in Seattle, WA and Elementary Principal at American Community School in Athens, Greece, where she and her team launched the International Baccalaureate PYP program in 1998. Kimberly began her career with Teach for America in 1991 as a corps member in Compton, CA. After TFA, she continued teaching in Compton, Colegio Americano in Quito, Ecuador and East Los Angeles.

Kimberly is the past chair of the International Baccalaureate Americas Regional Council and currently co-chairs the Ambassadors Board at the University of Washington College of Education. Kimberly holds a BA from Skidmore College (History and Philosophy) and a MA from Stanford University (Administration and Policy Analysis).

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
1. What Is Inquiry?
My Own Inquiry Journey
Experience #1: Inquiry Self-Survey
2. Beginning Your Inquiry Journey
How to Use This Book
Tips for Success
What's the Role of Administration?
The Inquiry Leader Self-Reflection Tool
Staff Reflection Survey
The Importance of Balance and Harmony
3. Taking Stock of Your Classroom
Experience #2: How Do You Know If You're "Doing" Inquiry?
Experience #3: What Do Your Students Think?
Experience #4: What Do Others See in Your Classroom?
Experience #5: What's the Student Experience?
Experience #6: What Does All This Tell You?
4. What Does Inquiry Look Like?
The Inquiry Five Strategies
Experience #7: What Are Your Burning Questions About Inquiry?
Experience #8: Who, When, and How Should You Answer Questions?
Experience #9: How Can Questions Be Savored?
Experience #10: What Does Your "Ideal" Class Look Like?
5. Strategy #1: Get Personal
Introduction to Get Personal
Experience #11: Mad-Libs: Who Are You?
Experience #12: Who Were Your Teachers?
Experience #13: What Stories Can You Tell?
Experience #14: How Do You Tell a Story That Sticks to the Soul?
Experience #15: What Does Your Classroom Say About You?
Experience #16: Why Do You Teach?
Experience #17: What Is the Third Space?
Experience #18: Ask Me Anything!
6. Strategy #2: Stay Curious
Introduction to Stay Curious
Experience #19: What's Your Expertise?
Experience #20: What Still Intrigues You?
Experience #21: Who Are Your Teachers Today?
Experience #22: Are You a Luddite or Linkedin?
Experience #23: What Do You Teach?
Experience #24: What Would Your Curriculum of Questions Look Like?
Experience #25: What's Your Teaching Approach?
Experience #26: How Do You Respond to Students?
7. Strategy #3: Ask More, Talk Less
Introduction to Ask More, Talk Less
Experience #27: What's Really Happening in Your Classroom?
Experience #28: Who Is Hiding in Plain Sight?
Experience #29: What Questions Are You Asking?
Experience #30: How Do You Teach With Your Mouth Shut?
Experience #31: How Do You Get Students to Listen to One Another?
Experience #32: How Do You Get Students to Talk Together?
Experience #33: What Are Socratic Seminars, Harkness, and Spider Web Discussions?
Experience #34: Which Questions Work Best in Inquiry Classrooms?
8. Strategy #4: Encourage Evidence
Introduction to Encourage Evidence
Experience #35: What's the Most Important Question to Ask?
Experience #36: How Do You Get Your Students to Back Up Their Claims?
Experience #37: How Do You Teach "Crap Detection"?
Experience #38: How Do You Provoke Healthy Debates?
Experience #39: How Can You Practice the Evidence-Seeking Process?
9. Strategy #5: Extend Thinking Time
Introduction to Extend Thinking Time
Experience #40: How Do You Get Students to Think More?
Experience #41: How Can You Get Students to Ask More Questions?
Experience #42: How Do You Cede Control Without Losing It Completely?
Experience #43: How Do Inquiry and Mindfulness Connect?
Experience #44: How Can You Support Innovative Student Thinking?
Experience #45: How Do You Start Project-Based, Problem-Based, and Challenge-Based Learning?
10. Now What?
Experience #46: How Do You Plan for Inquiry?
Experience #47: How Do You Assess Inquiry?
Experience #48: How Do You Make Time for Inquiry?
Experience #49: How Do You Explain Inquiry to Skeptics?
Experience #50: What Does Inquiry Look Like to You?
11. Inquiry Resources
Kimberly's Top Ten Lists
Inquiry Books
Inquiry Videos and Podcasts
Inquiry Organizations
Inquiry Blogs
Appendices
More Reasons to Fall in Love With Inquiry: the Inquiry Five (i5) and Alignment Documents
The i5 and Common Core State Standards
The i5 and Next Gen Science Standards
The i5 and Danielson Teaching Framework
The i5 and Marzano Framework
The i5 and Approaches to Teaching and Learning (International Baccalaureate)
The i5 and High Leverage Practice (TeachingWorks, University of Michigan)
Curriculum at-a-Glance (Southern Hemisphere)
References
Index