In the United States, 34 million children have had at least one adverse childhood experience (ACE)-- ranging from abuse or neglect to parental incarceration or addiction. Children living in poverty ...
“Life skills classroom” is one of those special education terms that means very different things depending on the district, ...
What have we been conditioned to think an effective classroom looks like? For many, it’s a vision that includes tables of students sitting quietly, working diligently as the teacher walks around or ...
It’s trickier than ever for teachers to manage class discussions of divisive topics—but it’s also crucial for students to learn and practice how to disagree respectfully, logically, and productively.
For Mark Daniels, the theatre teacher at Weber High School in Pleasant View, Utah, some movement happens organically in his classes. But Daniels also teaches the school’s cinema class where, he says, ...
J amie Moore was angry. It was 2019, and students in her composition course at the College of the Sequoias, where she is a professor of English, had stopped handing in their assignments once they’d ...
Whether you’re teaching in-person, remotely, or in a hybrid modality, it’s important to build a collaborative classroom community of mutual trust, respect, and understanding. It is a critical step in ...
In the old-growth forest that joins Atlanta’s Bush Mountain and Oakland City neighborhoods, Georgia Tech students led the build of an outdoor classroom to celebrate nature and community. A ...
Students develop a sense of ownership over learning and find new ways to be successful when they can choose how they show what they know.