NEW YEAR, New Challenges, Continuing the great work!

Over the past two years our 52GID blog has been a great boost to people practicing inquiry based learning, and we would love to continue the momentum in 2018. We can boast about some of our awesome stats. Currently, thanks to you, we have 145 regular subscribers and about 50 authors and the blog has logged over 13,000 views worldwide over the past 2 years.

We consider this to be a growing community of practice committed to sharing best practice in inquiry based learning, as we grow together as professional educators.

This year we have learned all kinds of new things from you all- like

  • getting great questions from students is not as easy as you might think, and
  • Guided Inquiry is a great way to differentiate instruction, and
  • through GID many educators are filling the role of teacher leader in their school as they share the practice with others – and so much more…

We are learning from each other and want this learning to continue and grow!

One of our active 2016-2017 bloggers called blogging for us one of the best professional development experiences of her year! (Thanks, Kelsey Barker!)

Here at BLV Consulting, we value professional development, and personalized PD. I learned through my National Board for Professional Teaching certification experience that reflecting on practice is one of the best ways you can improve your practice.  Blogging is a great format for that reflection where you can learn through your reflection, and we can learn from you when you share it! Since we value professional teachers and reflective practice, we want to get more people involved in this blogging effort. Together we can lead the change needed for our students.

So, to grow our base, we have a special challenge this year that we hope encourages past bloggers to continue and adds new bloggers to our list!  Read about the PLUS ONE Challenge by clicking that link above. This year with free poster giveaways for anyone who encourages a colleague to share their practice on our blog, we hope to have a full schedule and lots of learning!

Thanks for your participation and for encouraging your colleagues to learn with you!

If you’re ready to sign up for this year’s blog please sign up using this form to get started.

Looking forward to a great year!

Leslie Maniotes, PhD

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