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The Institute on Descriptive Inquiry traditionally conducts two summer institutes:
The Institute on Descriptive Process can be an introduction to descriptive processes, or may serve to deepen understanding of them. The Institute explores the many ways children and youth express their ideas about the world through activities, words, and works. The Institute’s work rests on close observation and description, giving teachers an opportunity to look at children’s (and their own) works from multiple perspectives, while also serving as a way of considering connections to and implications for teacher practice, curriculum, school policy, and assessment.
The Summer Institute on Descriptive Inquiry, brings together teachers, parents and others who are familiar with descriptive processes. Participants share a commitment to creating classrooms and schools where all children, and all people, are valued. As they work from their experiences, ideas and questions, those who attend participate in spanning studies of children and works, philosophical inquiry and in depth study of the descriptive processes.
The Institutes are committed to recognizing and lifting up the capacity of each person. Sharing a vision that starts and builds from students’ and teachers’ strengths, members and friends of the Institutes seek to reinvigorate their own practice and sense for what is possible.
While some educators return to the Institute from year to year, we extend a warm welcome to newcomers. Our top priority is to expand and diversify participation in this Institute. Expansion means that there are more educators speaking out for democratic values and schools responsive to children. Diversity of all kinds immeasurably adds to and strengthens that message.
The institute has two major components: the major seminar; independent work/small group inquiries.
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