About inSPIREd Inquiry
Get Inspired
If you're looking for inspiration, you've come to the right place!
Here at inSPIREd Inquiry, we believe that everyone can love to learn. The key lies in making meaningful, personal connections, so your team comes to see your goals as their own. You won't find any "Sage on the Stage" here. Our inSPIREd guides will engage with you and your team to create a learning experience like none you've had before.
From classrooms to board rooms, and anywhere in between, we work to inspire creative solutions to your pressing problems.
- Student engagement and academic outcomes have declined for the third year in a row.
- Bring inSPIREd Inquiry to your district and personalize learning in new ways.
- Coaches in our organization are seeing more arguments among athletes and fights on the fields.
- Bring inSPIREd Inquiry to your league and help your players identify shared strengths.
- Our youth ministries need to identify a new mission outreach project.
- Bring inSPIREd Inquiry to your congregation to help establish your vision.
Inspiration is the key to unlocking human potential. We strive to create a learning environment that is inclusive, collaborative, and supportive. We recognize that every individual has unique talents and strengths, and we aim to help you discover and develop each to their full potential.
Our Process
Our 5-step inquiry process can help your team tackle any problem.
- Spark: Ignite Interest
- Personally connect your team to the problem at hand.
- Probe: Dig Deeper
- Explore the problem through a personal lens, deepening connection.
- Illustrate: Get the Big Picture
- Situate the problem within a larger context to understand outside factors.
- Refine: Bring into Focus
- Put the pieces together to see how the individual can impact the problem.
- Employ: Get to Work
- Test strategies and solutions to find the best fit.
Our Audience
inSPIREd Inquiry can be adapted for all personal and professional learning needs, including:
- Education
- K-12 inquiry-based curriculum
- Professional development
- Higher education
- Community
- Sports teams
- Youth groups
- Religious organizations
- Business
- Team building
- Goal setting
- Professional learning
The 5 Stages of inSPIREd Inquiry
Spark
Humans are curious by nature, and inSPIREd Inquiry capitalizes on this interest. We start by asking, "What do you wonder?"
The first step in our process is to Spark your group’s interest or help ignite a spark they already have to figure something out. We light sparks by creating activities that engage your team with your Big Idea or central problem. These activities build on your group's natural lived experiences, expanding them in a way that builds personal connection and commitment to growth.
When you tell us what you want your group to explore, we will create a spark that will light their way.
Probe
In the second phase of inSPIREd Inquiry, the goal is to probe for deeper understanding. In this phase, you may engage in various activities aimed to explore self-regulation, social interactions, goal setting, career planning, or other phenomena.
At the heart of the Probe phase is the probing question – a question designed to elicit introspection and reflection about the Big Idea of interest.
Our inSPIREd experts will make sure your Probe results in meaningful and lasting learning by your team.
Illustrate
Now it is time to get the “Big Picture.” Here is where your team begins to connect the dots between their wondering and your goal.
As we Illustrate your purpose, we will clear any lingering misunderstanding your team may hold. Here, we work to build concepts and vocabulary your group needs to succeed.
Effective illustration supports higher-order thinking and helps your group develop support and justification for their ideas and actions.
Tell us what your team needs to know, and we will paint a picture worth a thousand words!
Refine
In this phase of inSPIREd Inquiry, the goal is to bring focus to our understanding of the problem or issue being explored. Your team will aim to refine their understanding of the big idea and make meaningful connections to their own lives and experiences.
The Refine phase is where the learning becomes highly personalized as you begin to put your learning to work through real-world applications of the skills and strategies being explored.
During this phase, we create opportunities for the group to practice newly acquired skills and apply strategies in authentic ways. At the end of this phase, you'll be ready to Employ your new knowledge.
Employ
In the final phase of the inSPIREd Inquiry groups get to Employ the skills and strategies they’ve learned throughout the process. We will work with you to design experiences to exhibit your new skills and seek opportunities to participate in authentic applications of newly acquired skills in your school, workplace, community organization, or beyond.
The goal of the Employ phase is to demonstrate mastery of the skills and strategies developed throughout inSPIREd Inquiry.