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Our strategies and resources are the outcomes of decades of work. We continue to learn with practitioners across many fields to develop and simplify two robust processes:
- The Question Formulation Technique, which helps all individuals learn how to formulate, work with, and use their own questions. Through learning how to ask their own questions, everyone — students, parents, clients, and patients alike — can become more engaged, critical thinkers.
- The Voice in Decisions Technique, formerly known as the Framework for Accountable Decision Making, which helps individuals learn for themselves how to effectively participate in decisions that affect them. Through learning how to effectively participate in decisions, the decision-making process becomes more democratic and all individuals are equipped with skills to advocate for themselves.
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The free resources you will find on our network will help you easily move into action to learn a strategy one day and facilitate the very next.
As a member of our website, you can:
- Access free downloadable resources to learn the Question Formulation Technique to teach others how to formulate their own questions
- Access free downloadable resources to learn the Voice in Decisions Technique to teach others how to more effectively participate in the decision-making process
- Watch videos to learn how to effectively implement these strategies and learn from practitioners across different fields
- Peruse blogs and dig into the nuance of facilitation and continue to learn how to best adapt implementation for different purposes
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The QFT helped refine questions I did not think could be serious into strong questions that could lead to better advance my research.
Recognizing that the genius of democracy is in its roots, [RQI] sets about strengthening those roots. By helping people learn how to help themselves the project makes possible the vital process of converting residents into effective citizens… The project offers the possibility of strengthening the vital core of our society.
Their level of engagement in the activity and each other’s ideas was not only exhilarating, but literally heart-warming.
I’d also enjoy seeing more teachers take a page out of the Right Question Institute and help students learn to formulate great questions.
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].