About This Course
Learn inquiry-driven teaching by living it — a blended certificate for international educators. Experience inquiry as a learner, build it, and get coached while you run it with your own students.
You have heard that inquiry works. This is where you finally learn to do it.
Most professional development gives you a slideshow and a hope — and by the next term, nothing has changed in your room. The research is blunt about why: after two to three years of typical PD, only about 3 teachers in 10 meaningfully improve. One-shot workshops do not change practice, because practice changes in classrooms, over time, with coaching. And inquiry is the hardest thing to learn from a lecture — because a lecture about inquiry contradicts itself.
So this program is the opposite of a workshop. It is, itself, an inquiry. Over seven weeks you are put through inquiry as a learner, taught exactly how it is built, and coached while you run it with your own students — until it is simply how you teach.
One course, a shared core, two tracks. Everyone — classroom teacher and school leader alike — starts with the same live onboarding and the same inquiry-teaching core, then finishes in a Practitioner capstone (design and teach a real unit) or a Leadership extension (coach a colleague, design a rollout). It maps directly onto the IB (PYP / MYP / DP) and works for British, American, Cambridge, and national curricula.
And it is honest about the evidence. You will never hear us claim inquiry is magic. It works powerfully when it is guided — and we teach the guided version, with the real numbers, so you can defend your practice to any skeptical colleague, parent, or head of school.
What You'll Learn
- Diagnose whether any activity is genuine inquiry — using the five essential features — and fix it if it is not
- Turn any topic into a worthy driving question, and teach students to generate their own
- Find the concept inside your content and craft a strong, transferable generalization
- Design and run a provocation that creates a genuine need to know
- Run the full inquiry cycle — engage, investigate, organize, generalize, transfer — as a lesson or a unit
- Scaffold and differentiate so every learner leans in — EAL, struggling, and gifted — by differentiating the support, not the rigor
- Assess understanding and transfer, not just recall
- Design AI-resilient tasks where the thinking cannot be outsourced
- Plan, teach, and reflect on a complete inquiry unit (Practitioner capstone) — or coach a colleague and design a rollout (Leadership track)
Free resources
The Inquiry-Driven Classroom Starter Kit
Five free field guides that make inquiry-based teaching doable on Monday morning.
What you'll get (5 PDFs)
The Lesson Flip Kit
12-page guide · 10 templates
10 plug-and-play templates — with verbatim teacher scripts, prep times, and the pitfall that sinks each — that turn any lesson into an investigation.
The Differentiated Inquiry Toolkit
10-page guide
Run inquiry where every learner leans in: a scaffold menu, the inquiry dial, a UDL quick-check, and a planning template. Differentiate the support, not the rigor.
The Question Flip
9-page guide · 50 questions
50 ready-to-use driving questions across every subject, plus the 3-move formula to turn any topic into a question students chase.
The 30-Second Close
6-page guide
The one-sentence lesson ending that makes learning transfer and stick — the generalization method, made tiny.
The AI-Resilient Lesson Design Guide
8-page guide
7 anchors and 5 copy-tonight task makeovers so the thinking cannot be outsourced to a chatbot.
The Challenge
A workshop cannot teach you to make students think.
You already know inquiry works — you have seen a lesson catch fire when students chase a real question instead of copying your notes. But between the theory and Tuesday there is a wall: the "how" is vague, open work seems to lose your strugglers, it feels like twice the prep for half the control, and now a chatbot can do the assignment anyway.
So the great inquiry lesson stays a someday thing. This program is the Monday-morning version — the specific templates, scripts, and questions that make it real, without rewriting your curriculum.
And it changes practice because it is designed the way the evidence says learning actually sticks: sustained, job-embedded, collaborative, modeled, and coached — not a one-shot.
You cannot be told how to make students think — you have to experience it. So you are put through inquiry as a learner first, then taught exactly how it was done to you.
— The program’s core design principle
Every module lands in your real classroom that week, with real students, and the evidence comes back to your cohort and coach.
— Job-embedded design (Darling-Hammond et al., 2017)
Why Now
The Landscape Is Shifting Fast
≈3 in 10
After two to three years of typical PD, only about 3 teachers in 10 meaningfully improve. One-shot workshops do not change practice.
— TNTP, The Mirage (2015)
+0.49 SD
Instructional coaching lifts the quality of teaching by nearly half a standard deviation — the highest-leverage ingredient, built into every week here.
— Kraft, Blazar & Hogan (2018)
Guided
Unassisted discovery underperforms explicit instruction; guided inquiry outperforms it. We teach the guided, evidence-based version.
— Alfieri (2011); Lazonder & Harmsen (2016)
What You'll Build
Concrete Deliverables
Spot & fix fake inquiry
Use the five essential features to diagnose any lesson — and dial it up a notch.
Design worthy questions
Turn any topic into a question students chase, and teach them to ask their own.
Teach for transfer
Find the concept in your content and get students to build the transferable understanding themselves.
Run the cycle for everyone
Provocations, the full inquiry cycle, and differentiation that scaffolds support — not lowers the bar.
Assess understanding
Transfer tasks and formative moves that measure thinking, not recall.
AI-resilient by design
Design tasks a chatbot cannot do for your students.
Perfect For
Who This Course Is For
Classroom teachers (K–12, any subject)
New to inquiry or experienced and wanting sharper tools. The moves are curriculum- and framework-agnostic.
IB educators (PYP / MYP / DP)
Maps directly onto units of inquiry, statements of inquiry, ATL skills, and concept-based planning.
Instructional coaches, coordinators & heads of department
The Leadership track adds coaching skills, change leadership, and building an inquiry culture that outlasts staff turnover.
Whole divisions & schools
A shared-language, culture-building cohort — with internal coaches trained to sustain it.
Honest Disclaimer
This Is NOT For You If…
Your Workshop Leaders
Learn From Our Inquiry Experts
Ioana Badicioiu
Workshop Leader, Course Coordinator
Brian Jackson
Workshop Leader
Benjamin Wekesa
Workshop Leader
Vivek M Agarwal
Workshop Leader
Three 90-minute sessions. That's the on-ramp. Educators go from AI-anxious to AI-fluent. I've done this across 50+ institutions, and I built EDodo.app to scale what happens after.
20+ years building software. Director at Axelerant. Former Director of Pedagogy at MasaiSchool. Built education tools the first week ChatGPT launched — because most people were missing the point.
AI isn't a content machine — it's a learning experience designer. That's the lens I bring to everything.
Everything You Need
What's Included
A 4-hour live onboarding immersion
“Become the Student” — you are taught inquiry as a learner, then we pull back the curtain.
Six shared-core modules + weekly live studios
Each week: experience the move, learn how it is built, run it with your students, bring back the evidence.
Job-embedded coaching
The highest-leverage ingredient in the research — coaching cycles every week, not a bolt-on.
A capstone in your own classroom
Design, teach, and reflect on a real inquiry unit — peer-critiqued and coach-reviewed.
Stackable microcredentials + a certificate
Competency-based and shareable — earned by demonstrating mastery, not by attendance.
A free 5-guide starter kit
60+ ready-to-run templates, 50 driving questions, differentiation, retention, and AI-resilient designs — download below.
Full Curriculum
Course Syllabus
12 sections
Our Approach
Learn from practising international educators — and an honest evidence base.
Led by Vivek M Agarwal, author of “Designing AI-Assisted Concept-Based Inquiry Classrooms” and creator of a library of 88 classroom-tested inquiry lessons across the IB continuum.
Edodo
Grounded in the concept-based inquiry tradition (Erickson, Lanning, Marschall & French) and the effective-PD research (Darling-Hammond; Kraft; TNTP).
See the program’s cited sources
Every claim is taught with its honest caveat — no inflated effect sizes, no viral statistics we could not verify.
Program design principle
Got Questions?
Frequently Asked Questions
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