1. Dan Rothstein Co-Director, The Right Question Institute
Advancing the Work from Conference to Action
Best Practices in the QFT
Midwest Seminar
Maine South HS
June 26, 2017
Matt Parrilli
Maine South High School
Sarah Westbrook
The Right Question Institute
Dan Rothstein Co-Director, The Right Question Institute

2. Today’s Agenda
Collaborative Learning Using the Question Formulation Technique (QFT)
Unpacking the QFT: Three Thinking Abilities and Classroom Examples
Lesson Planning and Design Using QFT
The Art & Science of the QFT
Lunch
Workshop Sessions
Advancing the Work from Conference to Action
Self-Organized Working Groups
QFT Slam Presentations
Q & A, Closing Reflections & Evaluation
#QFTCon #QFT

3. RQI’s Vision of Professional Learning …as a two-way street
RQI’s design of professional learning experiences
Professional implementation & learning
#QFTCon #QFT

4. Ways to partner with RQI and join a growing community of practice
Here’s what past participants are up to this year:
Sharing lesson and student questions with RQI
Writing articles for EdWeek, Teaching Channel, Educational Leadership, ASCA…or creating their own blogs
Presenting at local, state, and national conferences—
NSTA National and Regional Seminars,
NCSS Annual Conference in San Francisco,
NECTE in Worcester, MA,
AASL National conference in Phoenix, AZ
and more than we can keep track of…
Taking on new leadership positions and launching new initiatives
Working to change education policy and re-write standards
Collaborating with RQI on new proposals, projects, articles, grants, and presentations
Building communities of practice at local, state, national levels
And…

5. Facilitating book clubs with Make Just One Change

6. Delivering PD in their departments, schools, and districts
Knee deep a Sunday learning together so that historic places are in the classroom 

7. Filming instructional videos & creating online resources ‘[‘;//
That's a wrap! Ss & Ts filmed and interviewed on their experience w/ the #QFT

8. Tweeting QFT examples to school leaders, reporters, authors, and industry leaders…and getting their attention!
Thank you Phil Schwartz for answering our #QFT questions this #d205learns
S. E. Hinton Retweeted Right Question
One of the reasons why teachers are my heroes.
As a 7th grade science teacher, I encourage young scientists to question and figure out phenomena! #BillMeetScienceTwitter

9. And most importantly, continuing to do innovative, creative work with students in the classroom

10. Self-Organized Interest Groups
A QFT SLAM invitation

11. SLAM instructions
If you would like to share something that you have developed here today that you would be willing to share with your fellow participants, please add a slide that includes the following:
Your QFocus
How & why you want to use this QFocus
How you plan for your students to use their questions
Your name, school, subject area

12. SLAM instructions
Perhaps you did not get that far on a single idea here today; that’s fine! You could also add a slide and share:
An idea for using the QFT in your classroom that is still under development
A way that you are planning to advance the work from conference to action
An “a-ha moment” or a meaningful take away from your experience today
If you create one of these slides, please include your name, school, subject area.

13. http://tinyurl.com/QFTSLAM SLAM Presentations
If you would like to participate, go to:

14. Today’s Agenda
Collaborative Learning Using the Question Formulation Technique (QFT)
Unpacking the QFT: Three Thinking Abilities and Classroom Examples
Lesson Planning and Design Using QFT
The Art & Science of the QFT
Lunch
Workshop Sessions
Advancing the Work from Conference to Action
Self-Organized Working Groups
QFT Slam Presentations
Q & A, Closing Reflections & Evaluation

15. Closing Reflections We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place
For the first time.
--T.S. Eliot