Playful Inquiry

We’ve curated a collection of resources from our Teaching Preschools, Opal School and other curious minds for you to explore. Use these image, stories, tools, videos and articles as sparks of inspiration! This collection is intended to invite you to to think alongside us about what happens when you put these two big ideas - play and inquiry - together within classroom communities?

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Co-Creating a Caring Community

Co-Creating a Caring Community

What can we learn about ourselves and the community from the bees?

What can we learn about ourselves and the community from the bees?

Storytelling Superpowers at McKay Elementary

Storytelling Superpowers at McKay Elementary

  Check out how the kindergarten teachers at McKay Elementary (one of TPP’s partnering schools in Beaverton Public Schools) are using superpowers to bring storytelling…Read More.
Disrupting Bias

Disrupting Bias

Disrupting Bias (excerpt from The Field Guide, Chp. 6) written by Laura Czarniecki, former Shaver Teaching Preschool teacher If you’d like to read more purchase…Read More.
Planning for Playful Inquiry

Planning for Playful Inquiry

This tool was developed in collaboration with preschool teachers new to playful inquiry asking where do I start? How do I organize and plan using…Read More.
Asking Unanswerable Questions

Asking Unanswerable Questions

FROM THE OPAL ARCHIVE: This tool comes from the Inspiring Inventiveness collection of Principles, Practices, and Tools developed by Opal School teacher researchers in collaboration…Read More.
Growing Compassion

Growing Compassion

FROM THE OPAL ARCHIVE: 10/2018 – Written by Opal School teacher researcher Kerry Salazar “Empathy is a gateway to compassion. It’s understanding how someone feels, and…Read More.