We've got over 5,000 standards-aligned big questions to help you get started or you can write your own.
Students organize into groups, and you can use the StartSOLE app to help facilitate the process with targeted observations research backed practices.
Students present their discoveries creatively... slideshows, discussions, skits, raps are all welcome! Our mobile app gives you a rubric and tools to manage time during this phase.
I think SOLE is an excellent entry point to help children direct themselves in the course of their own learning. It helps them understand that they can bring something to the equation and it helps make them keep her learners!
Fifth Grade Teacher
One primary goal for Oregon City Schools has been to train our teachers on methods to become more of a coach/facilitator of student learning rather than simply the provider of content. Finding this type of training has been difficult until the SOLE training was offered to us. The feedback has been tremendous and teachers are instantly implementing the concepts with students and spreading the word. This training came at the right time for our district helping to move along the type of classroom transformation we are striving for.
Hal Gregory, Superintendent
Students learn best when they are interested in doing something like SOLE! It is a little nerve-racking at first because you have to let go. It is hard to know what to do in the classroom always because of the new standards we have to teach the curriculum and meet the outcomes that they are asking us to do.
Fifth Grade Teacher
Yes, yes, yes! I can't tell you how much I support this! I just sent an email to our principal and curriculum director telling them that SOLE lines up perfectly with our new reading program and that if our teachers went to the SOLE training and practiced SOLEs in their classrooms, they would have a better understanding of the research component to our new program and feel less overwhelmed, not to mention reap it's benefits!
Elementary Teacher
Once people recognize something good, often it will get instituted into the classroom and once this happens it begins to change the culture. If the culture gets changed it reinforces whatever it is that helped make it happen. In my experience so far, I think SOLE will have a good chance to be this change agent.
Seventh grade teacher
It is a game changer we are able to get students to focus and engage with a tremendous amount of energy and excitement for the topic!
Elementary School Principal
Students develop critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and communication skills
Students build motivation and independence, as they want to answer the “Big Question”
Teachers shift their role from knowledge provider to facilitator of student-led learning
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