Pace Inquiry Learning Collaborative has been funded by New York State since 2009. It was founded to promote teacher and student inquiry throughout the metropolitan region.  We do this by supporting Pace University School of Education faculty in working directly with over 100 secondary school teachers from a diversity of subject areas, experience levels, and school contexts.

We teach teachers how to motivate students to ask compelling questions, analyze data to build arguments, and elaborate their communications. 

Two Main Focus Areas:

1. Collaborative Teacher Inquiry
Is a well-established professional development practice (Bray, Lee, Smith & Yorks, 2000; Cochran-Smyth & Lytle, 2001, 2009) that promotes ongoing, sustained, and deep learning to improve individual teacher practices focused on student learning;  it is guided by questioning, evidence gathering, and reflecting (Hawley & Valli, 1999; Weinbaum, et. al, 2004). 



"The curriculum developed in this program has received repeated praise from participants and school leaders!"

2. Student Inquiry:
Is characterized by authentic disciplinary tasks (activities that mirror what those who study the discipline actually do with such content knowledge) and authentic learning tasks that are evidenced by greater student autonomy.(McDonald & Songer, 2008)