Practitioner enquiry tip of the week: supporting practitioner enquiry communities. I often get asked whether you have to be an & #39;expert& #39;, whatever that is, to support colleagues who are undertaking practitioner enquiry for the first time /1

Firstly, in practitioner enquiry there are few answers,just good questions. No one is definitive expert. We& #39;re all trying to find most sensible answers to own questions. However as we share thinking about what worked (pedagogy/ methodology) we& #39;ll build community expertise /2

Secondly, there are as many unanswered questions about running PE communities, as there are about classrooms (and many are remarkably similar). So, if you& #39;re coordinating a PE community, there& #39;s no need to pretend you have all answers. Indeed be honest about all the questions /3

Treat your role as leader/ mentor/ coach within the PE group as your own practitioner enquiry. Be explicit you& #39;re trying things out (different ways to get people together, to facilitate sharing, to explore what worked etc.), share your potential answers with the community. /4

The best support for practitioner enquiry comes from people also steeped in practitioner enquiry process. People enquiring alongside their colleagues, prepared to share their metacognition, share successful (& not so successful) learning and role model process (warts & all) /5