PR Strategies for Implementing the Inquiry Process: Graphics for Stripling's Model

Our district overhauled the ELA and Social Studies curriculums within the last three years. Because school librarians were included on the program committees designing the curriculum units, we were able to specifically infuse Barabra's Stripling's inquiry model as described in the Information Fluency Continuum in the research units designed by the committee.

Because the inquiry model is new to many staff members and students, its implementation requires a little bit of a PR campaign to encourage widespread adoption. I think it's helpful to have strong visuals to both promote the model and reinforce the phases during instruction. To facilitate this, I created two series of posters devoted to Stripling's model - both an elementary version and a secondary version. 

One of the inquiry bulletin boards I use to promote the process in my building. 

In my building, you'll find the posters on hallway bulletin boards, computer lab walls, and classrooms ranging from Living Environment to Global Studies to English. 


In the elementary libraries, you'll find posters based on the above graphic. 

Below are PDFs of the poster files. Please feel free to print and use for promoting your library's use of the Stripling Inquiry Model. Note - for the secondary posters I used photos with Creative Commons licenses that did not require attribution; the elementary posters were created with free clipart from Microsoft Publisher. 

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