What do you truly love to do?
That single question put educator Trevor MacKenzie and a struggling student on an unintended and life-changing journey of inquiry, discovery and meaningful learning. It was a journey that completely reshaped the way MacKenzie leads his classroom.
With the belief that all students deserve a chance to dig into their wonders and curiosities, MacKenzie proposes a scaffolded approach to student-centred learning by identifying the Types of Student Inquiry: Structured, Controlled, Guided and Free Inquiry. Each type requires students take progressively more control over their own learning. This inquiry-based learning model equips students to become lifelong learners by nurturing wonder, curiosity and agency in the classroom.
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Upcoming Events…
Joining a dynamic team of speakers for this event in Sydney, Australia on July 17 & 18, 2025. Click the images for information and registration.
Details and registration available for this amazing event in Portland hosted by the International School of Portland! Click the image!
July 26 at the Sustainability Centre in lovely Hobart! A massive thank you to East Derwent Primary School for organizing this event. Click the image for registration.
Details and registration available soon for this provincial conference at the Lighthouse Arts Center in Downtown Halifax! Save the date October 24, 2025.
Keynoting and workshopping at TriCon25 in San José, Costa Rica, September 25 - 27, 2025. Click the image for details!
Another special Kaleidoscope of Inquiry, this time in Hong Kong on November 22-23. Click the image for info and registration.
Free Resources
Explore a range of resource all designed to support your understanding and implementation of inquiry. Whether a book club guide, unit design templates, Flipgrid tutorials, all of the published sketchnotes (ready for you to download), or provocation hyperdocs, we have a continuously growing range of resources for you to access for free. Simply click the image!
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Free Sketchnotes
Download all of our helpful sketchnotes for your use in your classrooms with your students or to use with your staff and colleagues to discuss inquiry to support your professional development and collaborative learning.
Access to these sketchnotes is entirely free. Bring the power of inquiry to your school, your staff, and your learners. Each of these sketchnotes is its own special entry point into the rich conversation about student agency, wonderment, and empowering the learner.
What I’m Up To Gallery
One of the most fruitful opportunities in all of the work I do with schools (see a glimpse of these offerings here) is within the Learning Lab model. I have written about learning labs before and shared how they get to the heart of inquiry, allowing teachers to co-plan, co-teach, and reflect together across the span of a single day. There are a number of specific resources that I use to help colleagues I have the good fortune to co-teach with and I to make the most of our partnership. There are a few Learning Labs models schools and I discuss to help maximize impact for staff and spread the learning as much as we can. We care about student learning and teacher learning. We care about creating capacity and impact. We care about getting the absolute most out of our investment of time, budget, and effort.