What is Appreciative Inquiry?
AI helps to recognize the best in schools by affirming
past and present strengths.
It helps people develop the healthy relationships that
are the foundation of school success by mobilizing and
building high quality connections between and among
students, teachers, parents and administrators. This
leads all stakeholders in a school toward a shared,
strengths-based model that opens dialogue and further
inquiry. Below you can listen to how
this has transformed a real school.
Discover, Dream, Design, and Destiny
AI is broken down
for in four component parts:
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Discover—Uncover the good that already exists
through looking at strengths and the higher moments
people have. What do we want more of?
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Dream—Envision what might be. What is our vision for
the future?
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Design—Dialogue about what should be. What do we
need to do to achieve the goal?
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Destiny—innovate what will be. How do we sustain?
Appreciative Inquiry can be a great organizational
strategy with an entire school community or with
specific families, classrooms, school clubs, athletic
programs, parent-teacher organizations, administrative
teams, and school boards.
Listen to veteran teacher Nancy McKinnis* tell how
Appreciative Inquiry has increased the focus,
independence and productivity of her students. Nancy
currently teaches in the Leadership Department and
directs the Culver Girls Academies Leadership Training
Program. In addition to her teaching responsibilities,
Nancy sponsors the school’s Leadership Committee for
Africa, a student-run organization that models
collaborative leadership and provides hands on
experiences for students in fundraising, event planning,
research and service learning experiences in Africa.
For more information see: Cooperrider, D. and Whitney,
D. (2004)
Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change.
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.
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