The following “Essential Questions” (Developed by Ted Sizer and the Coalition for Essential Schools) are also part of the same philosophy and may provide a simpler way of looking at this philosophy.

1.       From whose viewpoint are we seeing, reading, or hearing?  From what angle or perspective?

2.       How do we know what we know?  What’s the evidence, and how reliable is it?

3.       How are things, events, people connected to each other?  What is the cause and what the effect?  How do they    fit together?

4.       What's new and what's old?  Have we run across this idea before?  (In what other disciplines?)

5.       So what?  Why does it matter?  What does it all mean?

Read more about the Coalition of Essential Schools here.

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