Who is the “Inquiry Ninja”?

Tiffany Poirier, MEd

Educator | Author | Speaker

Tiffany Poirier—a.k.a. the Inquiry Ninja—is a national award-winning educational leader, author, speaker, gifted education specialist and mom of three boys. She believes that “every child has infinite gifts.” A passionate advocate for inquiry-based learning and philosophy for children (p4c), Tiffany is the author and illustrator of the children’s critical thinking book Q is for Question: An ABC of Philosophy and a TEDxVictoria presenter with her talk on “The Power to Question”. Tiffany worked as a teacher from 2006-2015 in the Vancouver and Surrey School districts, and then she enjoyed 7 years as a vice principal. She has now returned to her first love of teaching, with a grade 4/5 classroom in the Greater Victoria School District. She received the the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2014.