Publications and Tools

Guiding Questions for Community Building

Guiding Questions for Community Building

Starting with Loose Parts

Starting with Loose Parts

Suggest your own playful inquiry resources

Suggest your own playful inquiry resources

We’ve curated a collection of resources from our Teaching Preschools, Opal School and other curious minds for you to explore. We hope you use these…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.
Family Explore: Texture

Family Explore: Texture

FAMILY EXPLORE ​Family Explore was created as a suite of resources to support adults in guiding children/ students through an inquiry experience. Offering questions to…Read More.
Suggested Classroom Materials List

Suggested Classroom Materials List

We often go into schools and conduct workshops where people ask us where we get all of the interesting art materials we use. We’ve prepared…Read More.