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In Sept 2012 The Inquiry Hub was launched as a grade 9-12 school in Coquitlam, British Columbia. It started with a presentation to the board of trustees by Principal Stephen Whiffin, David Truss, and Superintendent Tom Grant. Stephen and David, the school's current lead administrator, helped articulate a vision of learning focused on: Inquiry, Voice, Audience, Community, Leadership, Play, and Networks. The school motto is Connect | Create | Learn.

If kids can access information from sources other than school, and if school is no longer the only place where information lives, what, then happens to the role of this institution?

"We want to take the existing unit plans and adjust the language so they are more globally accessible and do 5-to-10-minute interviews with teachers about the unit and with students to talk about how they learned and what they created," she says. Her goal is to have the written unit and about 20 minutes of video so teachers can see and hear how a unit works. "We want teachers to see the learning potential of the unit. Over the next three years we plan to build out as many SLA units as we can."

Although the format and tools have changed over the past year, the philosophy has remained the same: Unify learning at school, learning at home, and learning anywhere, anytime. Empower learners to engage in and reflect on their own inquiry processes. Encourage interest- and passion-driven learning. Integrate peers, parents, communities, and global networks into the inquiry process.

I have made a terrible mistake. I waited fourteen years to do something that I should have done my first year of teaching: shadow a student for a day. It was so eye-opening that I wish I could go back to every class of students I ever had right now and change a minimum of ten things - the layout, the lesson plan, the checks for understanding. Most of it!