20 | Acquisition International December 2025 Inquisitive: Empowering Learners to Think, Question, and Discover Every child deserves engaging, high-quality education that inspires purposeful learning. To make this a reality, it is crucial that teachers are provided with ongoing support through streamlined lesson planning, enhanced student engagement, and innovative educational tools. Leading the charge is Inquisitive, an educational platform offering a, complete high-quality curriculum resource that covers multiple subjects and saves teachers’ invaluable time. We took a closer look at Inquisitive and its innovations below, as the company is named in the Global Excellence Awards 2025. Contact: Peter Walters, Chief Executive Officer, USA Company: Inquisitive Web Address: www.inquisitive.com Launched in Australia in 2018, Inquisitive was born from a powerful mission to inspire curiosity, critical thinking, and confidence in every learner through engaging, inquiry and phenomena-based lessons that make learning meaningful and accessible to all. The company began with History and Geography before expanding into Science and Technology, Civics and Citizenship, and Economics and Business as its presence continued to grow., Groundbreaking units in English,Mathematics and Digital Literacy are being added every month. In 2023 Inquisitive launched their US operations with a dedicated Science curriculum. Today, Inquisitive proudly serve over 50,000 teachers across 5,000elementary schools with lessons that encourage open-minded learning. With varying price points for teachers, schools, and districts, membership to Inquisitive’s platform provides teachers and students with full access to a wide range of PreK-5 lessons, digital resources, assessments, and language supports under one affordable license. Described by teachers as “transformative for engagement,” and “refreshingly intuitive to use,” Inquisitive’s platform allows schools and districts across the country to enjoy an entire year of consistently seamless education, with lessons aligned perfectly withstandards and that require minimal preparation for teachers In a crowded market, Inquisitive prides itself on being the most teacher-friendly and student-inclusive PreK-5 resource available today. Best practice pedagogy is embedded into every lesson it delivers – including the 5E pedagogical model, Visible Thinking Activities and High Impact Teacher Strategies to integrate, inquiry, promote engagement and real-world phenomena into students’ learning. With each lesson ready to use, deeply aligned to regulatory standards, and supported by a powerful digital platform, teachers can now teach from the heart instead of the script, ensuring that every learner is truly engaged throughout their educational journey. To facilitate this, Inquisitive has ensured that its internal operations reflect its external capabilities. The company has built Curriculum Teams for all subjects, formed around senior classroom teachers and school leaders with deep pedagogical expertise and led by Tim Power, Co-Founder of some of the world’s largest educational communities: the World Education Games, World Maths Day, 3P Learning, ClickView, and Inquisitive. Alongside this, Inquisitive also boasts animation and video labs, product development, a marketing division, and support teams, all experienced in exceptional large-scale delivery to schools. This exceptional team serves as the driving force behind Inquisitive’s sustained success, allowing the company to remain responsive and relevant in a rapidly evolving environment. The company has taken a fresh approach to curriculum adoption during times of unprecedented federal and state budget cuts and concerns, providing schools and districts with access to a complete curriculum at an accessible price while including student access and professional development and training, always striving to enhance opportunity for every learner. At the same time, the team pays close attention to developments within the educational sphere, ensuring to remain at the very forefront of industry advancement. With an increasing emphasis placed on high-quality instructional materials and science of learning research, the team has worked tirelessly to position Inquisitive at the intersection of curriculum innovation and classroom reality. The company has adapted quickly to states adopting new standards whilst integrating digital accessibility tools, as well as AI-driven translation for multilingual learners and language and literacy support for all students, into its platform. Such changes have boosted Inquisitive’s advantageous agility, reinforcing its position asinvaluable partner to teachers and a trusted platform designed to evolve alongside state and district priorities. In fact, the company’s remarkable industry reputation has recently resulted in Inquisitive being recently selected and approved as a complete core elementary science resource by the Idaho Department of Education. This is a well-deserved position that illustrates the continued and expanding efficacy of Inquisitive’s solutions, and the confidence of educational institutions in its success. Looking to the future, Inquisitive will be focused on expanding its assessment offering t, digital literacy and AI integration, and student performance and engagement analytics. Alongside this, it will be completing its work to provide schools with PreK and TK Science Units that support early learners and encourage them to engage in the world around them. Ultimately, Inquisitive intends to make high-quality, inquirybased education accessible to every student, everywhere – continuing the mission that has earned it recognition as the Best Primary Education Technology Platform 2025.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTUyMDQwMA==