Have you seen our video on Essential Questions? Essential Questions (sometimes called EQs) are deep, fundamental and often not easy-to-answer questions that are used to guide students’ learning; they can be found in Stage One of the ACPS Curriculum. Essential Questions stimulate thought, provoke inquiry, and transform instruction as a whole. Our Essential Questions video demonstrates how a lesson essential question can guide the learning process at the beginning, middle and end of a lesson and offers ideas as to how to incorporate essential questions into student discourse, writing, and reading practices.