Explore how Catalpa can help you use Practice-Based Inquiry^®

Catalpa Visits
We conduct visits to individual schools that produce certified reports of findings on how well each school is performing.

Agencies often sponsor Catalpa conducted visits to pilot the PBI visit in their area. Visits are sometimes scheduled to find new answers about why a school is facing difficult or unusual circumstances.

We also offer visits for other public institutions that provide the services of practicing professionals.

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Talks and Workshops to provoke thought and policy

Tom Wilson, creator of Practice-Based Inquiry®, and other PBI practitioners give speeches, talks and workshops about PBI.

Some titles are:

More from less: How Practice-Based Inquiry® strengthens accountability and school improvement.

What it takes to conduct Practice-Based Inquiry® visits. Why you should.

How Practice-Based Inquiry® makes the accountability of school systems more accountable.

The importance of keeping SALT salty.
Lessons from Rhode Island’s SALT initiative
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Why it is so hard to hold schools and teachers accountable for doing well what is most important for them to do.

What is… What ought to be… And why schools make up realities that are neither.

What teachers learn from what they do and why it matters.

Legitimizing Practitioner Knowledge.

“What did you learn in school today?”

How can we let wisdom into the data that “drives school change.”

The place of judgment in the classroom, the conference room and the hearing room.

Know what you see, not see what you know.

Contact Catalpa to make arrangements for a workshop or presentation. »