September Newsletter | Ways to learn with RQI this October

Webinars in October

This fall, RQI’s Legal Empowerment Program is offering a free webinar called “Foster client agency through building self-advocacy skills: a practical strategy for lawyers, advocates, and service providers.” You can join on either October 18 or October 26.

Those of you who work at community organizations or in legal services, criminal justice, adult education, or other direct services will be particularly interested. You’ll learn a way to strengthen your clients’ ability to advocate for themselves and feel a sense of agency. Space is filling up, so if you’re interested, register soon.

Join us on October 18 or October 26.

Harvard course this fall

Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions: Best Practices in the Question Formulation Technique is our flagship course that introduces educators to the art and science of using the QFT. It’s offered through the Harvard Graduate School of Education and runs from October 17 to November 6. The registration deadline is October 9.

Learn more and register

Questions about genetically modified food, September 27

Join us on September 27 for our free webinar with Retro Report. You’ll explore a new lesson plan in which students act as journalists who need to produce an updated version of a 10-year-old documentary. The documentary is about genetically modified foods, and students come up with questions they would ask to update the video. In doing so, they’ll consider the responsibilities that documentary filmmakers have to their viewers while investigating relevant scientific developments over the past decade.

Learn more | Join us on Sept. 27

Designing Equitable Access to Wellbeing, October 4

Our Legal Empowerment Program is joining the Full Frame Initiative on October 4 for an online event called From Principles to Practice: Designing Equitable Access to Wellbeing. We’ll be joining leaders from other organizations to talk about designing programs and initiatives that put wellbeing at their center.

Learn more and sign up

Upcoming events

Here are some upcoming opportunities to learn with us:

Sept. 27: Student Questioners, Student Investigators. In partnership with Retro Report.

Oct. 4: From Principles to Practice: Designing Equitable Access to Wellbeing, with the Full Frame Initiative.

Oct. 17-Nov. 6: Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions: Best Practices in the Question Formulation Technique. Registration deadline: October 9.

October 18: Foster client agency through building self-advocacy skills: A practical strategy for lawyers, advocates, and service providers.

October 26: Foster client agency through building self-advocacy skills: A practical strategy for lawyers, advocates, and service providers.

What we’re reading

Here are some stories (and a video) that got us thinking, and asking questions, this month:

Civics Education: Can We Teach Patriotism Without the Conformity? — Education Week

Exploratory Epistemic Justice and Question-Making Practices — Open for Debate, Cardiff University

When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, From Ancient Athens to the Present Day — The Tobin Project

Why Do Children Play? — Ideas & Impact, Harvard Graduate School of Education

How to Enable Smoother Transitions Into Kindergarten and the Early Grades — New America

How Can You Help Your Kids Get Better at Math? — The Hechinger Report

How Important Is Homework, and How Much Should Parents Help? — KQED MindShift

What your gifts mean

When you make a gift to the Right Question Institute, you help bring free resources to teachers and schools. Plus, you help equip people in low-income communities with skills and strategies for solving problems, participating in decisions, and making their voices heard — contributing to a more inclusive educational system, society, and democracy. Thank you for your support.

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