In the network of Université du Québec, faculty development is emerging in a demanding context. To manage this change, the GRIIP (Groupe d'intervention en innovation pédagogique) have been working to nurture pedagogic innovation in classes and in programs and to integrate learning of essential skills, within a collaborative model of academic development where student's learning as well as teaching enhancement and valorisation of research on teaching and learning can be fostered in all faculty development activities. With the help of a metaphor, this presentation will describe our model which aims to integrate several acceptions of SOTL and to create teaching commons about informational, communicational, linguistic and mobility skills in a teaching enhancement context. SOTL, metaphor and model, network