Warren Berger is the creator of the popular website AMoreBeautifulQuestion.com and author of The Book of Beautiful Questions: The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect, and Lead (Bloomsbury, 2018) and A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas (Bloomsbury, 2014)-all focusing on the power of inquiry to improve your daily life.
Before focusing on questioning, Warren wrote the internationally acclaimed Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Business and Your Life (Penguin Press, 2009), published in several editions worldwide. Business Week named Glimmer one of the "Best Innovation & Design Books of the Year."

Warren writes for a wide variety of publications, including Fast Company and Harvard Business Review, and was a longtime contributor at Wired magazine and The New York Times.

He has appeared on NBC's Today, ABC's World News Tonight, and CNN, and as an expert on NPR's All Things Considered. As a speaker, Warren has keynoted at the Oracle Connect Conference, the Cusp Conference, the Fuse Conference, the Design Thinkers Conference, and the International Women's Forum in Rome. He has spoken about questioning, and conducted questioning workshops, with the NASA Space Center, the U.S. Army, General Electric, Starbucks, Microsoft, Disney, and many other organizations. The education world has particularly embraced the power of questioning. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Virginia, the University of Oregon, University of South Carolina, Bowling Green State College, New York's School of Visual Arts, and Virginia Commonwealth University, where he gave the 2011 commencement address for graduating business students.

Publisher's Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. Why Questioning Matters Now More Than Ever
What This Means for Students and Their Teachers
Critical Thinking Is Even More Critical Now
Questions Give Humans an Edge Over Technology
Producing Future Leaders
Chapter 2. What Discourages Student Questioning?
The Decline of Kids' Questions
The Five Enemies of Classroom Questioning
Chapter 3. Model the Behavior
Become a "Beautiful Questioner"
Start With Why
Become a Student of Your Own Work
Adopt a "Beginner's Mind"
Be Curious in the Classroom
Chapter 4. Create a Culture of Inquiry in the Classroom
Foster an Appreciation of Questioning
Create a Stimulating Environment for Questioning
Make It Safe to Question
Make Questioning a Team Sport
Provide a Basic Questioning "Starter Kit"
Reward and Celebrate Questioning
Chapter 5. Inspire and Activate Student Questions
Provoke Curiosity
See Think Wonder
Release the Questions!
The Question Formulation Technique
The Origins of the QFT
Learning to Use the QFT in Classrooms
The Question Focus
The Question Generation Stage
Chapter 6. Help Students Improve and Take Ownership of Their Questions
Improve the Questions That Have Been Generated
Other Ways to Improve Questions
Evaluate and Prioritize Questions
Reflect on What Has Been Learned
Take Ownership of Questions
Turn Questions Into Projects
Help Students Find Their Own, Personal Big Beautiful Questions
Chapter 7. Be a Questioning Leader (in Your School, Community, and the World)
Ask Questions That Clarify
Ask Questions That Help You Rethink and Reinvent
Ask Questions That Help You Help Others
Ask Questions That Can Help You Enact Change
Taking Action
References
Resources
Index

Helping students ask bigger, more beautiful questions

Why does engagement plummet as learners advance in school? Why does the stream of questions from curious toddlers slow to a trickle as they become teenagers? Most importantly, what can teachers and schools do to reverse this trend? Beautiful Questions in the Classroom has the answers. Written to be both inspirational and practical, this resource will help educators transform their classrooms into cultures of curiosity. Readers will find:

·         Strategies to inspire bigger, more beautiful student questions

·         Techniques to help educators ask more beautiful questions

·         Real-world examples, case studies, practical ideas, and question stems

·         Videos showing strategies at work