Probing Questions To Transform Your Practice Cards
♠️ Spades — Reflection, Identity & Practice (click to see card topics)
Questions that invite deep reflection on identity, purpose, and professional practice.
- Ace — On Probing Questions
- 2 — Alliances
- 3 — Capacity and Will
- 4 — Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
- 5 — Emotions
- 6 — Fear
- 7 — Leadership for Equity
- 8 — Parents and Families
- 9 — Purpose
- 10 — Resilience
- Jack — Skill and Knowledge
- Queen — Transformation
- King — Working from the Inside-Out
♦️ Diamonds — Systems, Structures & Decision-Making (click to see card topics)
Questions that examine systems, assessment, and how decisions are made in schools.
- Ace — APT Dilemmas
- 2 — Access and Opportunity
- 3 — Assessment
- 4 — Colleagues
- 5 — Curriculum
- 6 — Evidence
- 7 — Hope
- 8 — Mediocrity
- 9 — Power
- 10 — Relationships and Personalization
- Jack — Risk and Safety
- Queen — Supposition
- King — Truth
♣️ Clubs — Culture, Learning & Equity (click to see card topics)
Questions that explore classroom culture, learning, identity, and equity.
- Ace — On Discourse
- 2 — Academics
- 3 — Angst
- 4 — Classroom
- 5 — Culture
- 6 — Empowerment
- 7 — Gender and Sexuality
- 8 — Learning Differences
- 9 — Perspective
- 10 — Race
- Jack — Resistance
- Queen — Social Justice
- King — Trust
❤️ Hearts — Equity, Action & Transformation (click to see card topics)
Questions that push toward action, equity, and transformative change.
- Ace — A Stance for Equity
- 2 — Accountability
- 3 — Assumptions
- 4 — Comfort
- 5 — Discourse
- 6 — Expectations
- 7 — Interruption
- 8 — Obstacles
- 9 — Privilege
- 10 — Relevance
- Jack — Significance
- Queen — Taking a Stance
- King — Urgency