Diana Laufenberg

@dlaufenberg.bsky.social

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Farm kid, long time teacher, exec dir of inquiryschools.org - often found frolicking in nature with the pup, Brin

Woodrow Wilson campaigning for his second term as president. He is wearing a leather finger protector due to injury from too many handshakes that accompanied his speeches.
SIFT Method stands for Stop, Investigate the Source, Find Better Coverage, Trace claims, quotes and media to the original context.
Political cartoon where a farmer has fallen through ice on a pond, into 'surplus crops'. The US Capitol is in the background, legislators are rushing to help with rolled up 'plans'. Titled Relief is in Sight.
Short historic newspaper article Excerpt: "Science must find a way to utilize the heat of the sun or within the next 100 years civilization will collapse for want of fuel"
Cabin in the woods surrounded by snow covered trees, in the moonlight
The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing. Toni Morrison
A wide shot of a new meeting room. Round tables and blue/pink lights highlight the room.
A wide shot of the US Capitol at sunrise. Blue skies on one side, pink clouds on the other.
Woman in a diesel truck watching a skid steer load big square bales on a gooseneck trailer. Blue skies and sunny.
Permission for the people in the community to try something new, make mistakes, reflect and grow, Support to build skills and capacity in your school community, Accountability for all school community members that expectations are being implemented/met to satisfaction, Community Engagement for the changes so one doesn't spend an inordinate amount of time defending but promoting and growing, and Discipline to hold the line for a 3-5 year chunk of time... any real change will take years to settle in, disrupt old patterns...keep focus.
Link to original post - https://www.inquiryschools.org/news/2017/12/3/crafting-learning-experiences Is this interesting to kids? If no, reassess what in fact might be interesting to kids and work from there. If yes, how might you increase that interest and find new angles for exploration? What is the engagement hook for this learning experience? Why will kids care about this standards/learning target(s)? What experiences can you build into the learning experience that will increase engagement/relevance? What are your essential questions? Are they actually essential? How are you using the essential questions to ground the learning experience? Who is learning the hardest/doing the most work? What are you currently doing to and for students that could be done by and with them, instead? How much are you talking at kids? How might you do less? How much of the student is present in the experience; does who they are and what they think have an opportunity to drive their learning? Where in this learning experience can students make decisions? How are you helping students to sharpen their tools for this type of experience? How much flexibility can you build in to allow for increased student agency? For each prescribed part of the learning experience, is there a flexible way for students to demonstrate their learning? For the summative assessments, how might you offer significantly different options to demonstrate learning? How might you increase the level of complexity? What is the current level of the formative and summative assessments? How might you increase the level of those tasks and instructional activities? What different kinds of 'knowing' can you infuse in your learning experiences? What types of texts and multimedia can be offered as options for obtaining information? How might you increase choices in resources that help students gain the background knowledge to effectively use the information for higher levels of complexity and application?
White and black dog named Brin atop Levis Mound in Clark County, WI. She is sitting on snow covered sandstone and looking out over a mixed forest
Diana is in the woods. The trees are bare. She is wearing a gray winter hat, black puffy vest and fuschia fleece.
Enhancing your Classroom Approach Through the Use of Primary Sources January 25, 2025 from 10am-2:30pm 47 E High St, Elizabethtown, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 17022 Professional Development: Discover the benefits behind analyzing primary sources from the Library of Congress and the Winters Heritage House Museum to uncover a town’s changes and growth over time. Why take this workshop? - Analyze unique and inspiring primary sources. - Discover the teaching tools and materials developed by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) staff, used by educators across the nation. - Explore a variety of teaching strategies that will increase student engagement, construct knowledge and build critical thinking. - Learn how to navigate the Library of Congress website for optimum use. - Investigate the educational resources on the Winters Heritage House Museum’s website. - Plan an engaging primary source lesson of your own. - Build professional relationships.
Diana, wearing a navy blue hoodie, standing on a Rick in the middle of Sedona's red rocks. The sky is blue with light clouds.
Prompting Deeper Discussions book from Matthew R. Kay on an oak table.
(Newspaper Article from 1921) Osage Woman is Slain by Highway Robbers Special to the World Ponca City, Okla., May 29 - Local authorities declared it their opinion today that Mrs. Anna Brown, full blood osage Indian wife of Oat Brown of this city was murdered in order to complete or cover up highway robbery on the main traveled road in the western Osage. Doctors located a bullet would on the top of her head. As an Osage she was getting $1,000 monthly in oil royalities.
White dog with black face masking, wearing a harness. Looking at the camera with her head cocked. Laying on a sandstone outcropping in West Central Wisconsin.
Two students seated at a picnic table, facing a wall of student work displayed on a bulletin board.