Inquiry Brief Series
Inquiry Brief Series: Reflections and Tools
EdPrepLab members collaborate to create tools that strengthen preparation for educators to enact practices based in deeper learning principles and focused on equity. Our members routinely share these tools and their reflections on the collaborative processes they undertake to create them.
Adapting a Critical Friends Consultancy to a Virtual Environment
This inquiry brief explores how a cross-institutional consultancy project examining anti-racist teacher and leader preparation adapted to a virtual environment amid COVID-19. We share a summary of each consultancy facilitated by Montclair State University; University of California, Los Angeles; and University of California, Berkeley, as well as tips for setting up a consultancy and building trust in a virtual space.
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Reflections on Developing a Cross-Institutional Team
This narrative explores how an inquiry team made up of three different institutions was formed and shares tools developed by EdPrepLab to support this process. We detail how the team, which was comprised of participants from Montclair State University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), considered their own individual institutional goals and how their combined inquiry would be enriched by their collaboration.
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Reflections on Developing a Cross-Institutional Project
This brief captures protocols and processes used to support effective collaboration in a cross-institutional inquiry team comprised of participants from Montclair State Univeristy, UCLA, and UC Berkeley as they worked together to design their inquiry project proposal. A conversation guide developed by EdPrepLab on brainstorming inquiry questions with a group is also included.
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