When I talk about inquiry learning, I'm not talking about adding another thing to an already full curriculum.I'm talking about bringing the curriculum together.Rigorous inquiry doesn't happen by accident. It's carefully designed.It starts with a compelling question that sparks curiosity.It builds students' knowledge through explicit teaching and rich learning experiences.It challenges students to think critically, ask better questions, analyse information, make connections, a

That it means giving students complete freedom to choose what they want to learn. I've heard comments like... "Students just pick a topic, Google information for a few weeks, make a slideshow, and present it." If that's your experience of inquiry, I can understand why you'd question its value. But that's not the inquiry I'm talking about. The most powerful inquiry learning I've seen is guided, structured, and knowledge-rich. Teachers play a critical role. They carefully desig

I've heard this a lot lately. And my response is always... "So are we." Somewhere along the way, we've started talking as if inquiry, literacy, and numeracy are competing priorities. I don't think they are. When students are engaged in high-quality inquiry, they're reading to gather information, writing to communicate ideas, analysing data, asking questions, debating viewpoints, measuring, estimating, interpreting graphs, solving problems, and making decisions. They're using