Student Engagement

When educators at a Washington, DC, high school ditched their lectures and devised a self-paced blended learning model, their students thrived.

Most teachers have a method of calling for quiet, and we’ve collected a variety of good ideas for elementary, middle, and high school.

In rural South Carolina, a Title I school makes the leap to become a Montessori school.

Successful classroom management relies on a handful of fundamental strategies and a larger number of quick interventions.

We teachers are always looking to innovate, so, yes, it's essential that we try new things to add to our pedagogical bag of tricks. But it's important to focus on purpose and intentionality -- and not on quantity. So what really matters more than "always trying something new" is the reason behind why we do what we do.

When it comes to managing a classroom, new teachers mostly learn on the fly, but here are some ideas you can use right away.

Brain breaks and focused-attention practices positively impact our emotional state, refocusing our neural circuitry to generate increased activity in the prefrontal cortex, where problem solving and emotional regulation occur.

Quick activities that can be used to check for understanding or emphasize key information at the end of a lesson.

Knowledge is a curse. Knowing things isn't bad itself, but it causes unhealthy assumptions -- such as forgetting how hard it was to learn those things in the first place. It's called the Curse of Knowledge. In this post, we'll identify how the Curse of Knowledge affects educators. Then we'll outline seven ways to alleviate the curse. The ultimate goal is to improve instruction.