Details and resources from RQI’s sessions at NCHE 2026:
Friday, March 27th
“Deceptively simple, authentically meaningful: Discover practical tools for student-driven, inquiry-based primary source learning” [Poster]
Date, Time, Location: Convention Center Concourse
Presenters: Katy Connolly
Session Resources:
“Student-led Inquiry with Primary Sources and the QFT, and Diversifying Students’ Source Use Beyond Text”
Date, Time, Location: 3/27, 3:30pm, RIVERVIEW 6
Presenters: Whitney E. Barringer (American Historical Association), Cora Causey (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Maame Conduah (RQI), Katy Connolly (RQI), Amelia Spencer (Glenwood Inc)
Description: Teach students to develop their own questions, interpretations, and narratives using Library of Congress 1930’s photographs of communities across Alabama. Discover new research related to historical inquiry and ways to diversify students’ use of non-textual primary sources to deepen student engagement, shift perspective and encourage critical thinking.
Session Resources:
- Slide Deck
- QFT and Primary Sources self-paced modules
- Student-generated questions: An exploration of an instructional strategy with young children
- Use Your Noodle: Student-Generated Questions in the Early Childhood Setting
- American Historical Association
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- Barringer, Brand, and Kryczka, “No Such Thing as a Bad Question?: Inquiry-Based Learning in the History Classroom”
- Barringer, Kryczka, and McFarlane, “Good Question: Right-Sizing Inquiry with History Teachers”
- Barringer, “Insights from the Road: Seeing Primary Sources in the World Around Us”
- AHA Tuning Project, “History Discipline Core – Competencies and Learning Outcomes”
- Andrews and Burke, “What Does It Mean to Think Historically?”
Saturday, March 28th
“One Instrument, Many Stories: Exploring Cultural Diaspora Through Musical Sources and Student-led Inquiry”
Date, Time, Location: 3/28, 10am-10:50am, RIVERVIEW 8
Presenters: Ben Dumbauld (TeachRock), Joshua Zarbo (TeachRock), Katy Connolly (RQI), Maame Conduah (RQI)
Description: Engage in historical inquiry about the African diaspora in the American south through the lens of music. Learn how to successfully utilize two methodologies – the Question Formulation Technique and the 5 M’s of Using Music – to fuel students’ curiosity and build their independence to analyze music-based primary sources.
Session Resources: