In lesson author Tim Smyth’s book, “Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels: Fun and Engaging Strategies to Improve Close Reading and Critical Thinking in Every Classroom” (Routledge 2022), he discuss ...

Ending a lesson by having children say 'Thank you' in unison to a local person who helped them with vegetable gardening in ...

Researchers have found that one key way to encourage intrinsic motivation to learn is by making classroom lessons relevant to students’ lives. This element is constant—whether we’re doing remote ...

Even in schools offering face-to-face instruction this fall, one “class” of students likely won’t be the coherent unit that it was in past years. Within one 5th grade class, for example, students may ...

At the end of a recent professional training, I had a rather candid conversation with an assistant principal. He was frustrated with his school’s sole focus on enhancing academic rigor at the cost of ...

Angela Vacca, 7, of Newington is one of nearly 55 million students nationwide now expected to continue their education at home while schools are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Discovering new ...

In the past 18 months, educators across the country learned how to adjust their instruction to online learning environments; many had to completely rethink how they would approach their content to ...

Matthew M. Chingos Former Brookings Expert, Senior Fellow, Director of Education Policy Program - Urban Institute The federal government has spurred the creation of a new generation of teacher ...