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Use this self-survey from Experience Inquiry by Kimberly Mitchell to determine whether you are already teaching in an inquiry-based way.

In the following pages from Think Like Socrates, discover a new way to foster group writing with your students. Featured is a step-by-step lesson plan with directions on how to use.

In this lesson from Think Like Socrates, author Shanna Peeples provides complex texts for various grade levels and includes critical questions for debate and discussion amongst your students. 

This resource from Disruptive Classroom Technologies will guide you to set goals for the use and integration of digital tools in your classroom at three levels of mastery: beginning, developing, and mastering.

This resource from A Guide to Documenting Learning provides guidance for participating in blogging challenges, which provide opportunities to develop your documenting skills.

In this chapter from The Blended Learning Blueprint for Elementary Teachers, consider how you can move from differentiation to personalized learning, design personalized pathways, and make those pathways work.

Use this worksheet from Powerful Task Design by John Antonetti and Terri Stice with your students to engage students deeply in their learning and reading.

Discover in this resource from Concept-Based Inquiry in Action by Carla Marschall and Rachel French the phases of concept-based inquiry and how they are interconnected to support learning transfer.

This excerpt from Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Secondary, makes the case for conceptual learning and debunks the myth that simply  covering the material will cause students to retain it.

Use the strategy of concept attainment, from Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, with your students, which mimics the brain’s natural concept-formation process by drawing out patterns from examples and nonexamples.

"They want kids to see the world differently, and to be empowered to act differently, because of what they have learned. It seems that the goal of all learning—not just conceptual understanding—is transfer." Read more from Julie Stern, author of Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, on Corwin Connect.

Use the guidance in this section from Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Secondary, to begin a conversation with your students about how this type of learning might be different from what they are accustomed to doing.