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Our team is excited to highlight a feature to make your experience even smoother—introducing the Contact Button on your teacher dashboard!

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IA _ MCS - Contact Button Feature Announcement

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We are excited to announce the launch of the Teacher Annotation Feature! Please click the attached PDF for the full announcement.

In Partnership,

Traverse Partner Engagement

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Muscatine New Annotation Feature Announcement.docx - Google Docs

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Cultivating a Culture of Inquiry Follow-Up Letter!

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Cultivating a Culture of Inquiry Follow-Up Letter!

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Thank you all for your engagement and participation in the Cultivating a Culture of Inquiry Professional Learning Session!

From,

Traverse Partner Engagement

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Muscatine Cultivating a Culture of Inquiry Follow Up Letter.docx

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Getting Started Training, August 19th, 2024

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Getting Started Training, August 19th, 2024

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See the document above for the agenda and objectives for our workshop.

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Muscatine_ Getting Started Workshop Agenda

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We hope you have a wonderful start of the school year using Traverse!

From,

Traverse Partner Engagement

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World Geography 6th Grade Iowa Standards Alignment

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World Geography 6th Grade Iowa Standards Alignment

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Hello Muscatine educators! As promised, here are your 6th grade World Geography alignment. I am going to leave this in the announcements as your quick reference – I highly suggest that you all download it for your conveinence.

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Iowa 6th Grade_ World Regions and Cultures (2)

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Welcome to Your Traverse Implementation Padlet!

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Welcome to Your Traverse Implementation Padlet!

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Welcome to Traverse, the digital-forward, media-powered, and inquiry-driven social studies curriculum from Imagine Learning!

In this Padlet, you will find information and resources to support you through your implementation journey. If you have questions, please reach out. We are here to help.

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Consider using this weekly plan template to help you plan with Traverse.

The link will automatically provide the ability to create your own Google Docs copy.

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Copy of Traverse Weekly Plan Template - MASTER - make a copy

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Consider using this template to help you plan student-centered, inquiry-based lessons with Traverse.

The link will automatically provide the ability to create your own Google Docs copy.

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Copy of Traverse Lesson Plan Template - MASTER - make a copy

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Review this example of how one teacher planned their first week with Traverse.

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Click here to make a copy of the Analyzing Traverse as an Artifact Lesson Plan.

Click here to make a copy of the Analyzing Traverse as an Artifact Student Handout.

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Visit the Google Folder for the following Click Paths that will assist with pacing and planning with Traverse:

Logging in to Traverse - Educator View

Setting Student Proficiency Levels

Create and Customize an Assignment

Edit an Assignment

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If you would prefer a digital version of the Participant's Guide, the link will automatically provide the ability to create your own Google Docs copy.

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Copy of Traverse Getting Started Workshop Participant Guide

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Share your response to the statement.

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I feel confident and well-equipped to teach in a student-centered, inquiry-based classroom using Traverse.

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Refer the following Google Folder for Click Path directions to assist with the Navigation Challenge. You will find the following tasks:

1. Home Page & Unit Overview

2. Teacher Edition Resources in the Chapter Narrative

3. Echoes

4. Chapter Inquiry

5. Print Companions

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I feel confident and well-equipped to teach in a student-centered, inquiry-based classroom using Traverse.

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Please complete the survey linked above.

1. Choose Core Curriculum

2. Select Marco Landon as the name of the PD Specialist for this session.

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Formstack Form - Imagine Learning PD Session Survey

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Traverse: How to Create and Customize an Assignment

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The process of creating and customizing an assignment in Traverse is straightforward and easy to do, while also providing teachers with the flexibility to make each lesson their own.

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Cultivating a Culture of Inquiry Training, September 13, 2024

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Cultivating a Culture of Inquiry Training, September 13, 2024

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Muscatine: Cultivating a Culture of Inquiry Workshop Agenda

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Watch this video for an introduction to the Traverse curriculum. Traverse is a comprehensive social studies program for grades six to twelve with standards-driven and skill-based instruction, student-friendly learning opportunities, embedded differentiation, and effective instructional routines. To meet the demands of the 21st-century classroom, Traverse courses deliver rich content, assignments, projects, class activities, assessments, videos, and a source library within one platform.

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Watch this video to learn how to navigate your teacher account, including the Traverse homepage and the Curriculum, Assess, and Classroom sections of the platform.

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Teacher Resources in the Chapter Narrative

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Teacher Resources in the Chapter Narrative

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Featuring planning and pacing suggestions and the Inquiry-based Instructional Routine.

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It is one thing to build an inquiry-based curriculum, it is quite another to make an inquiry come to life in a classroom. If curriculum is a recipe, then how do teachers move from being line-cooks to inquiry chefs? How do they get students to eat their inquiry vegetables and keep coming back for more? What makes an inquiry rise in one classroom and flop in another? What is inquiry's instructional secret sauce? I will argue that trust is how inquiry teachers "kick it up a notch"!

Why trust? Recently, I co-directed a documentary film project, Making Inquiry Possible (MIP) featuring four films that explore how innovative teachers, schools, and districts are shifting to inquiry-based instruction. At the core of each documentary is the question: What does it take to make inquiry possible in social studies? The answer has become unmistakable: trust. Like a song that gets stuck, once I started to hear it, I couldn't un-hear it.

For example, when I asked one of the teachers in the project how inquiry had changed his teaching, he responded this way:
So my role as a teacher has changed. What I've noticed with the use of compelling questions and using IDM in my classroom it is absolutely incumbent on the student to answer that question for themselves. Now that doesn't seem wild when we say that, but in the moment of teaching, many of our students have been accustomed to being able to find an answer, rather than simply create one...
Do you hear it? Did you notice how he needs to trust the students to answer the compelling question "for themselves"?Let's listen again. When I asked a teacher about scaffolding inquiry, this was the response:

Students need enough support in order for them to even put the pieces together. What I've noticed is that it's almost like holding an egg. If you grip it too tightly, it's gonna break. But if you truncate everything too much for the student, what you get on the other end is, is simply just not a robust answer. It kills the process. So because of that, I have to be both the support, but also have to like, kick the kid out in the pasture a little bit to kind of figure things out on their own.

Surely you heard it this time - how the teacher needs to hold (or trust) the inquiry "egg" by not gripping too tight? Or how he needs to "kick the kid out in the pasture a little bit to figure things out on their own" as an act of pedagogical trust? While I would never suggest or condone literally kicking a kid, metaphorically ( and only metaphorically), it does make sense for inquiry. Students need space to figure things out in an inquiry. Teachers need to trust students and give them that space. And, students need to trust teachers to make that space meaningful and to be there when they lose their way. Sometimes that space is uncomfortable and teachers will need to nurture students and scaffold the process so that they can ultimately embrace that intellectual freedom.

This theme of trust surfaced in every facet of the film project and further deepened a curiosity about trust and its relationship to inquiry. Trust is now popping up in every conversation with an inquiry teacher and in every classroom observation. It has been a Eureka! moment. But, trust is one of those words that is kind of squishy and a platitude like, "just trust your students" seems really unsatisfying and possibly frustrating for teachers wanting to go deeper into inquiry-based instruction. So, trust me, you are going to want to read on!

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By allowing students space to think (deliberate ideas), talk (collaborate around ideas), and do (produce ideas), teachers can build a culture of classroom trust with their students that accelerates inquiry-based learning in the classroom.

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Account Executive

Tosha Vogel

Email: tosha.vogel@imaginelearning.com

Phone: 602-881-7911

Customer Success Manager

Ann Minckler

Email: ann.minckler@imaginelearning.com

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Visit this Google folder to find the Iowa state correlations for Traverse.

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This video will show you how to utilize the Google Translate feature using the Google Chrome browser.

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Have a question for the Imagine Learning or Traverse Team? Add it here and your Traverse Support Team will respond.

Additionally, please provide screenshots (where applicable) to your questions to assist with answering questions.

Make sure to also include the URL in your screenshot as it will assist with resolving issues and addressing questions.

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2. Inquiry-Based Learning: What I've Learned

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2. Inquiry-Based Learning: What I've Learned

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Online Curricula and Solutions | Imagine Learning

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4. Spark Inquiry in Your Classroom: Inquiry Orientation

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4. Spark Inquiry in Your Classroom: Inquiry Orientation

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View the video under Part 1: Where Does Inquiry Begin?

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Imagine Learning | Inquiry Orientation Free Professional Development Course

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Imagine Learning offers Inquiry Orientation, a free three-part professional development course on inquiry-based learning. Inspired by Kathy Swan’s Making Inquiry Possible documentary series, it provides manageable steps, practical advice, and simple checklists to get you incorporating inquiry and the C3 Framework in your lessons.

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Notecatcher: Essential Elements in a Culture of Inquiry

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Notecatcher: Essential Elements in a Culture of Inquiry

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Essential Elements in a Culture of Inquiry Notecatcher

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This link will take you to a shared Google Doc that all groups will use to share their Top Five lists.

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Please complete the survey linked above.

1. Choose Core Curriculum.

2. Select Melinda Sloan as the name of the PD Specialist for this session.

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Formstack Form - Imagine Learning PD Session Survey

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Are students to create questions about topic or question during investigation?  If it’s in the investigation, where is there space for students to share and discuss? Or a place to capture their discussion?

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Hello team

Today I was using Traverse for the first time this year and some of my students were answering a poll. However, even once they clicked their response, the button that said "Submit your answer" was crossed out and the student could not click it. They had to refresh the screen. Is this an issue on our end or yours? The lesson was Global Perspectives and the poll was on the very first page.

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Purposeful Planning: Unit Planning, October 11, 2024

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Purposeful Planning: Unit Planning, October 11, 2024

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See the document above for the agenda and objectives for our workshop.

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Muscatine_ Purposeful Unit Planning Workshop Agenda

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Purposeful Unit Planning Participant Guide 

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As of October 11, there are 134 instructional days remaining.

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SS6 Standards Correlation

SS7 Year-at-a-Glance

SS8 Year-at-a-Glance

SS7 Curriculum Map

SS8 Curriculum Map

SS7 Pacing Guide

SS8 Pacing Guide

SCJH Standards Alignment

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Click on the links below to make a copy of the Pacing Tool you will use in today's workshop.

U.S. History: Beginnings to the Civil War

U.S History: Reconstruction to the Present

World History: Beginnings to the Reformation

World History: Emergence of the Modern World to the Present

World Geography

Economics

U.S. Government

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Featuring planning and pacing suggestions and the Inquiry-based Instructional Routine.

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Please complete the survey linked above.

1. Choose Core Curriculum

2. Select Timothy Lent as the name of the PD Specialist for this session.

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Formstack Form - Imagine Learning PD Session Survey

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Getting Started Training, June 25 and 26, 2024

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Getting Started Training, June 25 and 26, 2024

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Professional Learning Specialist: Lindsey Warden

E-mail: Lindsey.Warden@imaginelearning.com

See the document above for the agenda and objectives for our workshop.

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11.15.24 Muscatine Inquiry-Driven Chapter and Lesson Planning Workshop Agenda Template

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Purposeful Planning: Chapter Plans - Participant Guide

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Make a copy of this Chapter and Lesson Plan Template to guide your use of the Inquiry-Driven Instructional Routine.

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Copy of Traverse Weekly Plan Template - MASTER - make a copy

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Click here to investigate how one teacher planned a chapter with Traverse, using the Inquiry-Driven Instructional Routine.

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Sample Chapter and Lesson Plan- Renaissance PDF

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Please complete the survey linked above.

1. Choose Core Curriculum

2. Select Lindsey Warden as the name of the PD Specialist for this session.

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Formstack Form - Imagine Learning PD Session Survey

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Is there a way to customize assignments among classes so I don't have to go into each class and make the change?

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How do we remove past assignments from the teacher assignment location?

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Assessments- Scoring Breakdown spreadsheet- Is it possible to make it printable and/or freeze the question % correct column and student score row to make it easier to analyze the data?

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Assessments- Scoring Breakdown spreadsheet- Is it possible to make it printable and/or freeze the question % correct column and student score row to make it easier to analyze the data?