Make Just One Change Lib/E: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions

About the Book

The authors of Make Just One Change argue that formulating one's own questions is "the single most essential skill for learning"-and one that should be taught to all students.

They also argue that it should be taught in the simplest way possible. Drawing on twenty years of experience, the authors present the Question Formulation Technique, a concise and powerful protocol that enables learners to produce their own questions, improve their questions, and strategize how to use them.

Make Just One Change features the voices and experiences of teachers in classrooms across the country to illustrate the use of the Question Formulation Technique across grade levels and subject areas and with different kinds of learners.

About the Author :
Dan Rothstein is the codirector of the Right Question Institute and coauthor of Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions. He is a former National Academy of Education Spencer Fellow and earned a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education before becoming the director of neighborhood planning for the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was one of the founders of the Right Question Institute (formerly known as the "Right Question Project") and has collaborated with Luz Santana and other staff at the Right Question Institute to create curricula, teaching materials, articles, and books that are widely used to support adoption of the Right Question Strategy. His work has been featured on National Public Radio and other media outlets, and he is a frequent presenter and keynote speaker at national conferences and symposia. Luz Santana is the codirector of the Right Question Institute and the coauthor of Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions. In the late 1980s, as a parent of children in the Lawrence, Massachusetts, public school system, she began to work with other parents as part of a drop-out prevention program. At the time, she was also traveling a path that led from her own personal experiences coming from Puerto Rico and then navigating the welfare and other public systems and continuing on to getting an associate's degree to a bachelor's and a master's degree from Springfield College School of Human Services. One of the founders of the Right Question Institute, she is now a nationally recognized educational innovator, facilitator, and keynote speaker in English and Spanish who has designed a wide range of participatory learning curricula in many fields, including parent involvement, adult education, social services, health care, immigrant advocacy, neighborhood organizing, and voter engagement. Her work has been featured in the Boston Globe, international press in Spanish, and on National Public Radio. Randye Kaye is an accomplished voice talent, actress, singer, broadcaster, and author. She received a Listen-Up Award nomination and starred reviews for Ben Behind His Voices, which she also wrote, bringing together the various facets of her career. She lives in Trumbull, Connecticut, where she voices everything from commercials to cartoons when the family remembers to be quiet. Wendy D. Puriefoy, a national expert on school reform and civil society, is a passionate and effective advocate for education equity for disadvantaged children. Wendy D. Puriefoy, a national expert on school reform and civil society, is a passionate and effective advocate for education equity for disadvantaged children.