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Our strategies and resources are the outcomes of decades of work. We continue to learn with practitioners across many fields to develop and simplify two robust processes,

  • The Question Formulation Technique, which helps all individuals learn how to formulate, work with, and use their own questions. Through learning how to ask their own questions everyone, students, parents, clients, and patients alike, can become more engaged, critical thinkers.
  • The Framework for Accountable Decision Making, which helps individuals, learn for themselves how to effectively participate in decisions that affect them. Through learning how to effectively participate in decision, the decision-making process becomes more democratic and all individuals are equipped with skills to advocate for themselves.

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The free resources you will find on our network will help you easily move into action to learn a strategy one day and facilitate the very next.

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  • Access free downloadable resources to learn the Question Formulation Technique to teach others how to formulate their own questions
  • Access free downloadable resources to learn the Framework for Accountable Decision Making to teach others how to more effectively participate in the decision-making process
  • Watch videos to learn how to effectively implement these strategies and learn from practitioners across different fields
  • Peruse blogs and dig into the nuance of facilitation and continue to learn how to best adapt implementation for different purposes
  • Learn about recent news and upcoming events
  • Receive regular newsletters including information on new resources, blogs, articles, and learning opportunities

The tool asks why and really​ builds a sense of confidence, responsibility, and collaboration​ among adult learners. Especially for refugees and immigrants who are often told what to do by authorities — this tool supports them to make their own decisions and teaches them that their decisions are important and valid.

— Keighty Ward, Literacy Works, Chicago

I believe all of us, including our students, should spend far more time thinking about the right questions to ask. Most of us spend too much time worrying about having a right answer in both our professional lives and personal lives. But the truth is, the answer can only be as good as the question asked.

— James Ryan, Former Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA

[The QFT] makes me feel like I’m in control of my learning.

— 7th Grade Student, Ellington Middle School, Ellington, CT

Now, when I go to meetings where people are making decisions that really affect my family, I don’t have to just sit there, not knowing what to say. I think about what I want to know and what I need to know and then I ask the question. What a difference!

— Sugar cane plantation worker, Hawaii

I think the idea that you can question the authority (and that you have a right to do so if you don’t understand something) is what I took away from your session.

— Participant, Fifth Annual National Conference on Family Literacy

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