What is Middle Years Professional Inquiry Cycle?

Middle Years Professional Inquiry Cycle (MY PIC) is a professional development tool designed to support Middle Years teachers, grades 4-8, and teacher-librarians as they inform and advance teaching and student learning through a process of inquiry. In this process, teachers will define a question for inquiry relevant to student learning in their own classroom environment. Teachers will then have opportunities to connect to research and best practice as they investigate their question, experiment with new strategies and models of teaching in their own classroom, gather and reflect on student evidence stemming from that investigation and experimentation and share their findings in a professional learning community.