Giving teachers more control over their collaboration with peers may boost the effectiveness of teacher teams and encourage educators to stay in the classroom, according to Education Week. At Westwood High School in Mesa, Ariz.,
Kids are born to play. And when Peter Gray was young, adults made sure that’s exactly what they did, according to an article in The 74. Gray grew up in the 1950s, when children were
“At districts, efforts to transform education should center on launching skunkworks programs,” according to Thomas Arnett, a senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute, writing in Education Next. “These will not be shiny new
Since classroom time is critical to learning, teachers and students simply cannot afford to lose precious time due to clumsy technology, writes Madeleine Mortimore, global education innovation and research lead for Logitech, where she leads
Zachary Champagne’s 3rd and 4th graders figure out early on that this math class will be different when their teacher tells them: “I don’t care about the answer,” according to an article in Education Week.
Weaving poetry, including spoken word performances, into literacy curricula can improve student engagement and bring positive results in reading fluency, according to an article in K-12 Dive. Poetry can fulfill all the primary requirements under
Growing evidence points to the role of critical thinking in educational achievement. Students need to activate critical thinking — higher-order thinking skills and metacognition — to effectively master and retain new content knowledge, synthesize it
Young students are struggling with fine motor skills, like using scissors and pencils, and social-emotional capabilities, such as following instructions and sharing, teachers report, according to Education Week. Strong majorities of preK-3 teachers said these
The sharp increase in chronic absenteeism over the past few years has led schools and their partners to use an abundance of strategies — including messaging, individual interventions and data analysis — to get students
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