Right Question Institute

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The Right Question Institute makes it possible for all people to learn to ask better questions and participate more effectively in key decisions.

Hundreds of thousands of people across many fields are enthusiastically using RQI’s resources to help individuals develop their own ability to ask better questions and participate more effectively in decisions.

Facilitate student curiosity and engagement

Resources for Teaching + Learning

Build effective school-family partnerships

Resources for Schools + Families

Make it easier to identify decisions that affect us and to see the connections between decisions on different levels that have an impact on us each day

Resources for Voter Engagement

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Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions

A simple yet powerful strategy to teach students how to formulate their own questions. Learn the Question Formulation Technique today, facilitate the strategy tomorrow, and watch students become more curious, engaged learners.

Questioning, Advocating, and Participating in Democracy

Learn how asking questions and partnering in the decision making process can fundamentally change how individuals participate in democracy.

Why do you think we ask questions? So we can be curious about what we are learning and want to know more.

— Ayaka, 1st Grade Student, Novi, MI

A student who hadn’t said a word all summer led his group in identifying open and closed questions.

— Sun Ezzell, Professor, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA

Students working on their computers in a classroom.

For me, their questions and the young man’s comment made my day. I wanted the students to own the class. I wanted them to have a say in what we learn and how we learn it. After using the QFT just one time, I was already noticing a change in the engagement of my students.

— Rob Evans, High School History Teacher, Chadwick School, Palos Verdes

Cover of the book Future Wise by David Perkins

…it wouldn’t be hard to supercharge the Question Formulation Technique with big questions. Teachers could choose Question Foci with big understandings in mind. Learners could include criteria related to insight, action, ethics, and opportunity as they sort their questions for importance. The main point is this: putting learners in charge of questions.

— David N. Perkins, Professor of Teaching and Learning, Emeritus, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA

Sometimes, I have a lot of questions, and this way I can express those without being judged… I get to learn a lot more.

— 8th Grade Student, Belfry Middle School, Belfry, KY

Over 300,000 educators around the world have used the Question Formulation Technique, and the Right Question Institute and its strategies have appeared in the New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Education Week, and many other publications. See RQI in the Press