Week 1

6:00 - 6:05 Welcome to Seminar, Share Purpose and Goals

6:05 - 6:20 Name Story Activity & Slides

6:20 - 6:40 Share out in serial testimony format. Learn more about serial testimony here

6:40 - 6:50 Brave vs. Safe Space Activity

• We’ll be building community together online. Our inquiry group is built on educators writing and talking together. Group Agreements are one way we can create a “brave” space together.

Use the resources here as you consider the following questions:

• What makes everyone “feel safe” may be different. What does it look like to build “brave” spaces? Can a safe space also be a brave space? How can the transparency and openness that happens in your closest and most trusted relationships translate to this space?

• Read about three suggested working agreements. Do these agreements resonate for building our online community? How might you revise or add to them? Are there any other agreements you would suggest?

6:50 - 7:00 Whole Group Discussion (chat or off mute)- what came up in your journaling?

7:00 - 7:10 Let's invite Susan Lytle into the space. While we watch this short video clip, let's

consider the following: How is creating a brave related to the ideas/ themes around

inquiry that come up in Lytle’s Better piece?

7:10 - 7:15 BREAK and Journaling / Reflection: silently and independently answer the reflection

questions in Cultivating Genius on page 37.

7:25 - 7:35 Small group discussions about reflections.

7:35 - 7:45 Whole Group Discussion: what came in your small group discussions?

• How are these questions/ reflections in conversation with the learning environments or brave spaces (or other today’s activities or artifacts) that we wish to create in this inquiry group and/or other learning environments we are in?

7:45 - 7:55 Share culminating portfolio project & our Inquiry Group Website

7:55 - 8:00 Final Reflections: Type a word or phrase in the chat that captures how you’re feeling

after tonight’s first inquiry group session.