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26 Ontario School Library Association Scaredy School Teach er has a contingency plan in case of emerge ncy: eXIT PLan "top secre t" exit 1 note to self: Wat ch out for instructiona l designs that focus on " soft skills". students ne ed more back to the basic s. Get out your tried & true lessons from your old p lan book. exit 2 note to self: do not agree to performa nce based assessments. If u navoidable, follow up w ith your old paper & penc ils tests you have alway s used. exit 3 note to self: Loo k out for people who w ant you to redo your old u nit plans. you do not h ave time for that. don't pic k up the phone when t hey call and if you see them , throw pencils at them . exit 4 note to self: Kee p in mind that parents will question what you are doing in class; rememb er that is what call display is fo r! With his emergency ki t in hand, scaredy sch ool Teacher watches and w aits. day after day he w atches until one day ... Thursd ay 3:45 pm: His colleague, Mr. Inn ovation appears and co rners him in his classroom. Mr. Innovation is so ex cited that he has to share ho w well his inquiry base d learning project is goin g in his own classroom ! scaredy school Teache r is cautious but and as ks Mr. Innovation more abou t it. Forgetting about his em ergency kit, Mr. scared y school Teacher follows him back to his class t o see some of the student's w ork in progress. This was noT part of t he Plan. scaredy school Teache r is amazed by the qua lity of learning evident in the student work. The students are highly mo tivated and their level of understanding is much deeper than that of hi s own students. something incredible happens … He starts to wonder. can he get his student s to be more engaged i n the learning? can he give students more opportu nity to think critically, solve problems and work collaboratively? Is this inquiry stuff better tea ching practice? He's starting to think h e is a Progressive Teach er! He feels overjoyed! ad venturous! carefree! a live! scaredy school Teache r forgets all about his o ld plan book, not to men tion all his old unit tes ts. He asks Mr. Innovation to collaborate with him o n an inquiry unit they will r oll out together next te rm. until he gets into day 1 of planning … and it is challenging to think about teaching i n this new way. z Fontichiaro, K. (2009). nudging toward Inquiry: re-envisioning existing research Projects. school Library Monthly, 26(1), 17-19. Watt, M. (2006). scaredy squirrel. Kids can Press Ltd. …continued from page 25