National History Day Project inWisconsin

Recent Project: The GID Process In the 2015-16 school year, after participating in a Guided Inquiry summer institute, my partners at the Charter School: the social studies teacher, the Dean,

Views to Finnish Education system from Guided Inquiry point of view

In my first blog post I introduced myself and in the second I told you about the GI projects that I have had. In this blog post I want to

Experimenting with Guided Inquiry in primary school

In this second post of my week in 52 weeks of Guided Inquiry I want to tell you about some of the observations I did during experimenting Guided Inquiry in

From Down Under to North Europe!

What could be a better way to start this sunny but cold leap day than with a gigantic leap from South to North! I have been reading earlier posts this

Blog Post 4: A week in the life of a Guided Inquiry practitioner in India

This is a tale of one enormous parcel, cancelled planes, mice, an elephant and Guided Inquiry Background: Since 2007, I’ve visited Loreto Panighatta many times to work on establishing a

The Down Under Devil’s Advocate: Ten ways to derail a Guided Inquiry

Greetings from a Sydney heatwave – It’s over 40 degrees again! I think I’ve been involved in enough Guided Inquiries now to know ten easy ways to make the unit

More from Down Under – a little research

Does Guided Inquiry enhance learning and metacognition? In 2014, I moved from being Head Teacher Librarian at Loreto Kirribilli, a Catholic independent secondary school in Sydney, Australia, to my present

Teacher Librarians forever!

Greetings from Sydney, Australia, on a hot, hot day.  It’s 40 degrees today, and very humid.  40 degrees centigrade is your 100 degrees fahrenheit.  The ceiling fan is on overdrive,

The best decision?

What’s the most transformative decision I made this year? I’d have to say it was offering a 2 hour PD during the summer to introduce interested faculty to Guided Inquiry