New York state has taken an important and commendable step forward. With the Board of Regents’ adoption of a statewide ...

In classrooms around the world, educators strive to nurture not only students’ academic skills but also the qualities that help them thrive more generally as dynamic people, namely character strengths ...

This post is by Dr. Cecelia Traugh, Dean of Bank Street College Graduate School of Education. Teacher quality makes an important difference in the emotional and cognitive growth of children. As debate ...

Cognitively activating teaching practice, as a strategy that can promote students' critical thinking, problem-solving, and in-depth learning, is considered to have potential relevance for teachers’ ...

What goes on in the classroom often has little to do with what scientists have discovered about how kids learn. The obstacles are intellectual, emotional, and behavioral. Over the last several decades ...

Google for Education today launched the beta sign-up for its new Practice Sets feature in Google Classroom, which gives students hints for solving problems and immediate feedback on their answers — ...

“If we don’t have enough time or resources to do everything we’re asked to do, or want to do in the classroom, what should we do?” Kevin Baird, Chairman of the Board at the nonprofit Center for ...

As a fifth-grade public school teacher, April Archer is constantly looking for ways to bring warmth and intentionality into her classroom. Student-led conferences were coming up, and she wanted ...

The Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning at Calvin College has launched a project focusing on the integration of spiritual practices into the Christian classroom. The three-year ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is “interleaving,” and how do you practice it in the classroom? The teaching and learning strategy of interleaving has been gaining more and more attention from ...