Every teacher designs their classroom with the same goal: create an engaging and welcoming environment for students, writes Kelsey Tygrett of Greenbrier County Schools in an eSchool News column. She offers five inexpensive ways to
Sam Baule writes of three ways to engage students in productive struggle in an eSchool News column. Baule is a medical student at Marian University. “The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging
A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that nearly half of the teachers polled say that students showing little to no interest in learning is a “major problem” in their classrooms, according to
As schools abandon textbooks for online and other alternatives, teaching and learning suffer, writes Robert C. Thornett in Education Next. He teaches humane letters and rhetoric at Chandler Prep, a Great Hearts classical school in
A growing number of programs are transitioning from short, uneven practical teacher training in classrooms to residencies, apprenticeships and mentoring, according to an article in The 74. Residents do more of the day-to-day work of
“Learned helplessness” is the belief that even with effort, a student will not progress, can resist help, quickly surrender academically and display passive behaviors, said speakers at the recent Council for Exceptional Children’s annual convention, according
School District of Philadelphia (PA) Superintendent Tony Watlington is accelerating a post-pandemic learning recovery in the nation’s 8th largest school district (200,000+ students) with curriculum rollouts, facilities improvements and more agenda action items, according to
A recent article in Forbes magazine, written by Lutz Finger, a data scientist in residence at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management with extensive experience as a technologist and product manager, lists the meaningful changes
The Appalachian State University Academy at Middle Fork, located in Walkertown, North Carolina, serves approximately 300 K–5 students and is piloting an innovative teaching model, as described in an Appalachian Today article. Rather than a
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