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Helping Families Ask Questions Could Be Your Most Powerful Engagement Tool

The Right Question Institute makes it possible for all people to learn to ask better questions and participate more effectively in key decisions.

Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions

The Question Formulation Technique, created by the Right Question Institute, is a simple yet powerful strategy to teach students how to formulate their own questions. Learn the Question Formulation Technique today, facilitate the strategy tomorrow, and watch students become more curious, engaged learners.

Questioning, Advocating, and Participating in Democracy

Learn how asking questions and partnering in the decision making process can fundamentally change how individuals participate in democracy.

I’d also enjoy seeing more teachers take a page out of the Right Question Institute and help students learn to formulate great questions.

— Adam Grant, Professor of Management and Psychology, The Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA

Students working on their computers in a classroom.

For me, their questions and the young man’s comment made my day. I wanted the students to own the class. I wanted them to have a say in what we learn and how we learn it. After using the QFT just one time, I was already noticing a change in the engagement of my students.

— Rob Evans, High School History Teacher, Chadwick School, Palos Verdes

Cover of the book Failure by Stuart Firestein

Rothstein and Santana have put together a straightforward and accessible book about what seems like a simple idea – get kids to ask questions, questions they care about. Don’t be deceived. It’s one thing to get kids or anyone to ask a question or two; it’s another to get them take possession of the questions, to recognize that learning is asking questions and not just memorizing stuff. The art of making questions, nearly lost, is thankfully revived in [Make Just One Change].

— Stuart Firestein, Professor of Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY

The questions I had almost forced me to try and answer them, which better helped my understanding. I knew what I needed to look for.

— High School Student, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, IL

[The QFT] helps you form ideas, new ideas, and like prepare yourself for what you’re about to learn or what you’re learning.

— 6th Grade Student, Belfry Middle School, Belfry, KY

Hundreds of thousands of people across many fields are enthusiastically using RQI’s resources to help individuals develop their own ability to ask better questions and participate more effectively in decisions.

Facilitate student curiosity and engagement

Resources for Teaching + Learning

Build effective school-family partnerships

Resources for Schools + Families

Make it easier to identify decisions that affect us and to see the connections between decisions on different levels that have an impact on us each day

Resources for Voter Engagement

Microdemocracy communicates a simple vision: effective participation in a democracy can start when people begin to participate in decisions that affect them in their ordinary encounters with public or publicly funded institutions.

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Over 300,000 educators around the world have used the Question Formulation Technique, and the Right Question Institute and its strategies have appeared in the New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Education Week, and many other publications. See RQI in the Press