by Leslie Maniotes | May 14, 2026
Most descriptions of inquiry based learning look great on paper. Stages. Steps. A clear path from question to answer. And then a teacher tries it in a real classroom and somewhere in the middle, things get messy. Students get stuck. Topics fall apart. A child who... 
by Leslie Maniotes | Apr 7, 2026
Most educators have heard of the “inquiry process.” They can name the steps. They’ve seen the various diagrams, the circle, the pool… But when it comes to the classroom, the real question is: What does it actually look like when students are in the process of... 
by Leslie Maniotes | May 31, 2025
While exploring the new GID units from the EQuIP Grant gives a glimpse into the power of inquiry-based learning, it’s important to recognize that such deep, authentic implementation doesn’t happen easily or by accident. The success of these units — and the remarkable... 
by Leslie Maniotes | May 5, 2025
About the EQuIP grant As the Educational Quality through Instructional Partnerships (EQuIP) grant project, an exploratory research-to-practice study led by Dr. Lucy Santos-Green came to a close, a lasting legacy was born. The project, funded by the IMLS, set out to...
