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InquiryHub works to co-create a world where every student can see how their own values, experiences, and perspectives can enrich STEM learning and bring about a more just and sustainable world. The goal is to prepare students not for what STEM is today, but for what it could be if it were inclusive and focused on helping build thriving communities. InquiryHub practices co-design. The materials, professional learning workshops, and events engage participants as co-creators, which strengthens their understanding, commitment, and agency.

InquiryHub believes that no change happens without beginning and ending with human relationships grounded in care for others and respect for the dignity of all who participate in events and workshops. New technologies are embraced while keeping human beings at the center.

InquiryHub’s workshops and events are grounded in decades of research on how people learn and how effective organizations adapt to change. Research is conducted in partnership with schools to improve processes and products.

For InquiryHub, equity means ensuring all students have access to high-quality instructional materials and feel a sense of belonging in classroom communities that affirm who they are. It acknowledges that STEM is one of many ways of knowing and experiencing the world and that involvement in STEM can support movements toward justice and envisioning more sustainable ways of living on the planet.

InquiryHub’s team includes award-winning teachers, subject matter experts in STEM, sought-after workshop leaders at national and international conferences, and leading scholars in STEM education. The team led the development of OpenSciEd High School and includes a winner of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and a member of the National Academy of Education. The team has secured more than $70 million in grant funding from multiple sources, including for major research centers such as the NSF-funded National AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming.

Founded in 2007, inquiryHub is one of the longest-running and most successful Research-Practice Partnerships (RPP) in education today. InquiryHub brings together researchers with a variety of backgrounds from multiple institutions, including school district leaders, teachers, students, and a host of community partners. The key institutional players in the inquiryHub RPP are Denver Public Schools and the University of Colorado Boulder. Other institutional partners who have contributed substantially over the years include the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, BSCS, Northwestern University, and Utah State University. Community partners have included Project VOYCE, Denver Parks and Recreation, and The Park People.

InquiryHub offers several services, including curriculum-based Professional Learning (PL) and Implementation Support for OpenSciEd, SchoolWide Labs STEM Units and Professional Learning, and Next Generation Assessment for STEM Learning.

Capstone’s Stairway Decodables is a supplemental phonics resource designed to support the Science of Reading instruction. It features 70 engaging texts with 80% decodability, advancing word counts and phonics skills to build readers’ stamina and confidence. These resources are ideal for small group instruction and independent reading practice, with suggestions for activating background knowledge before, during, and after reading.

The series includes recurring characters to enhance decodability and support caregivers reading at home. Each book integrates components of the Science of Reading, such as comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and phonological and phonemic awareness, with engaging plots and appealing visuals.

The series progresses through six steps: The Step 1 book, Tess Has Fun, focuses on short vowels, vowel teams, and consonant digraphs. The Step 2 title, I Can Do It, teaches initial and final consonant blends and includes tricky words. The Step 3 book, Beth’s Bath, emphasizes digraphs “sh” and “th”. The Step 4 book, Will’s Bike, covers various phonics concepts, including vowel teams, consonant digraphs, blends, silent ‘e’, soft ‘c’ and ‘g’, trigraphs, vowel-r combinations, diphthongs, and long vowels. The Step 5 book, Cat Food Clues, focuses on vowel teams (ue, oo, oa, ow) and tricky words. The Step 6 title, Points and Fouls, provides practice in decoding words with diphthongs.

This structured approach helps young readers develop essential reading skills step by step.

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