Spirals of Inquiry: Building Professional Inquiry to Foster Student Learning

This paper describes the development of inquiry thinking in a network of schools in British Columbia, Canada. From an initial study of the inquiry cycle used within the Bay Area School Reform Consortium to the more recent knowledge on teacher professional learning, the approach to inquiry is evolving and deepening. The description of the way in which inquirymindedness is now being applied at the level of the individual learner is illustrated through the reflections of a teacher leader in a key network school.