Working Timeline of Foundations/Inquiry Tasks and Activities

When

What

May/June 2016

Compile faculty reader content (inquiry resources)

Create Foundations of Inquiry site with resources
Create and distribute exec. summary of 9th grade
teachers groups notes. Focus on findings.
Create and distribute team progress report, including
key documents useful to teachers

Those Responsible
rev 5/27/16
team
TW, team
PC, Foundations team
PC --> team

Plan implementation of EE Ford grant -- structure and

resource allocation for coming years

admin

closing meetings (6/16)

follow up with 9th grade teachers groups

Report out to full faculty

team, groups

Summer, 2016

Guide formative, exploratory reading and thinking

(reader and website resources)

team

opening meetings
(8/16)

Arrange inspirational speaker, workshop (refocus on

most important purposes and objectives; gains)
9th grade teachers groups: tasks and goals for the year
(incl. utilizing longer classes to support inquiry
methods)
Departments begin to "own" (develop, apply) inquiry
methods

admin

Inquiry session/speaker for parents (inquiry, new

pedagogy and schedule); configure parent
liaison/advisory group
Family weekend classes feature inquiry

team, admin

fall family weekend

team, groups
departments

chairs and teachers

fall and winter

Professional development: individual and collegial

conferencing, training, etc. for inquiry, interdisciplinary
teaching, creating change in general

11/28-12/15/16

Use weeks b/w Thanksgiving and Winter vacation to try

out 70 min. class schedule and inquiry methods
Departments begin to conceive courses for 4CM with
inquiry integrated and interdepartmental possibilities
considered

team, departments,
teachers

11/28 in-service

Pedagogy and possibilities, incl. inquiry, of 4CM

Admin, chairs, teams

Spring family weekend

Meet with parent liaison/advisory group

Foundations team

closing meetings

Confirm findings, best practices to drive design of

courses for 4CM (incl. inquiry and interdisciplinary
components)

chairs

Summer, 2017

Initiate OBD process course design and redesign with

focus on longer classes, inquiry methods, and
interdisciplinary practices

teachers

Opening meetings

Setup activities for moving into the new schedule with

appropriate, purpose built curriculum. What needs to
get squared away at the outset of this year? How is the
year's work staged

team

Fall Family Weekend

Parent education: inquiry in the classroom, etc. Have

credit, transcript, profile questions resolved for
presentation.
Courses of Study for 2018-19 (w/ new schedule in
place) proposed; departments' staffing plans proposed
Again sse weeks b/w Thanksgiving and Winter vacation
to try out 70 min. class schedule, inquiry methods,
other program developments

team, chairs, college

counseling

1/18 - 6/18

Courses and pedagogy, including inquiry components,

developed

departments

8/18

4CM/4+5 schedule in place with purpose-designed

curriculum and courses featuring inquiry components
and interdisciplinary components

all

11/17
11-12/17

departments
team, departments,
teachers