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Getting started

Every school is unique and Enquiring Minds will take a different shape depending on the people involved and the level to which you want to apply the approach to the teaching and learning in your school.

However, there are a few things you will want to do before you implement Enquiring Minds:

• read the Enquiring Minds guide
• gain support from the leadership team in your school
• be prepared to take young people's ideas seriously
• spend a significant amount of time on planning and preparation work, before you elicit ideas from students - this will continue as their enquiry projects develop
• make additional space in the timetable
• be prepared to experiment and for things to go in directions you hadn't completely pre-empted.