The Audience Prism considers the gatekeepers and decision makers cautioned against in Hide Monsters. Students are scaffolded to present and defend their research, conclusions, and innovations.

The Application Prism reconsiders Raise Failures as how students expand their innovations from improvements to adaptations that reshape the interdisciplinary connections between school subjects and real-world applications.

The Responsibility Prism occurs throughout the process, encouraging students to continuously assess the broader implications of their work and consider their responsibility to future generations and the planet. Critical pedagogy is instrumental here, emphasizing that education is a transformative process with the potential to inspire positive change and global awareness.

The Perspective Prism returns the focus of communities back on their connection to their schools and students. The concerns raised in Defund Education require investment into place-based inquiry driven by empathy with those most impacted by the the defunding of our country.

The Knowledge Prism allows students to deepen their inquiry by navigating the boundaries of their understanding and incorporating external research.

The Process Prism is one of these essential scaffolds. It focuses on how students incrementally take ownership of how they learn, not just what they learn, by progressing from teacher-modeled methods to personally crafted approaches informed by disciplinary paradigms.