About GId
We want our students to think critically, make informed decisions and know how to use the information available to learn new information and ideas, in order to create new knowledge.
But, we also know that all of our students need the skills of how to find, evaluate, and use information just to get by in today’s world, let alone to fulfill college, career, and civic readiness. Traditional research projects go against the students’ experience and can cause students to just cut and paste! This is not what we want our students to learn.
We want our students to think critically, make informed decisions and know how to use the information available to learn new information and ideas, in order to create new knowledge.
So, we set out to change how research is done in school by taking what we know about student learning and using it to help us work with our students. Guided Inquiry Design® reenvisions what teachers do in school to help students use the information available to them to think critically and learn new content.
Guided Inquiry Design® – a research-based instructional design framework that will change how you teach forever!

Making the SHIFT 'Knowledge Quest' Article

Leslie Maniotes, PhD
Owner of BLV Consulting
The Team

Ann Caspari, MA is education specialist at Smithsonian Institution’s National Air & Space Museum and director of professional development program for preschool teachers in the District of Columbia Schools on inquiry science for young learners. She holds a master’s degree in museum education from George Washington University and has experience in inquiry learning in museums in Boston, MA, Newport, RI, Calvert County, MD, and Washington, DC.
Together—Kuhlthau, Maniotes, and Caspari are the Authors of the Guided Inquiry Series; including
- Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century
- Guided Inquiry Design®: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School
- Guided Inquiry Design® in Action: Elementary
- Guided Inquiry Design® in Action: Middle School
- Guided Inquiry Design® in Action: High School