{"id":156,"date":"2016-12-13T20:17:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T20:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.soe.umich.edu\/tripss\/?page_id=156"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:24:51","slug":"about-our-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/about-our-project\/","title":{"rendered":"About Our Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project Summary:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funded by the James S. McDonnell Foundation, we are a team of teachers, teacher educators, curriculum developers, and researchers who are currently developing and testing a sustainable professional development (PD) model to support inquiry teaching in social studies. We see inquiry teaching as a way to engage students in constructing and critiquing arguments and as a way to support students\u2019 disciplinary reasoning, discussion, and writing. Our site- based PD explores instructional practices that support student learning while participants attend to student thinking and co-plan, co-teach, and debrief lessons together (we build from the University of Washington&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tedd.org\/teacher-education\/learning-labs\/\">Learning Lab<\/a>&nbsp;model). Instructional practices include eliciting and responding to student thinking, facilitating discussions, supporting small group work, supporting English learners and other students who have difficulty with literacy, modeling reading\/analysis of texts, and teaching argument writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we work with our school partners, we study teachers\u2019 thinking, instruction, and experiences with the PD in order to understand how the PD supports teachers&#8217; learning. Based on these findings, we continuously improve the PD so that it is supportive of teachers\u2019 learning and useful to their instruction. A teacher advisory group works with us as collaborators in this process so that the PD model is responsive to local priorities, constraints, and interests. Ultimately, our goal is to develop a sustainable PD model that can be replicated and that is engaging, useful, and supportive of both teachers\u2019 and students\u2019 learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/09\/Teacher-Friendly-Crosswalk-rev3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"759\" height=\"888\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/09\/Teacher-Friendly-Crosswalk-rev3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/09\/Teacher-Friendly-Crosswalk-rev3.jpg 759w, https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/09\/Teacher-Friendly-Crosswalk-rev3-256x300.jpg 256w\"  sizes=\"(max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Summary: Funded by the James S. McDonnell Foundation, we are a team of teachers, teacher educators, curriculum developers, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-156","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/tripss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}