Set aside 15 minutes before or after school or at lunch to meditate.

The national group's latest report calls for a focus on developing critical-thinking skills.

Math test scores soar if students are given the chance to struggle.

Green Dot founder Steve Barr shares his organization's fundamental requirements for creating a viable school.

A school leader's "above-and-beyond" philosophy inspires a can-do attitude.

Educators can be coaches in the contest for stimulus-package funding for innovation.

Here are five ways to improve communication with parents.

How can we see ourselves as others see us? Try putting cameras on students' heads.

The California congressman reflects on his own school days.

Several states are modeling innovative efforts to determine what children should learn by the end of their senior year.

When students let their minds drift off, they're losing valuable learning time. Here are ten smart ways to increase classroom participation.

Education professor Michele Knobel uses these sites to help prepare tomorrow's teachers.

A directory of conferences and other professional-development opportunities for educators.

The author explains how rampant anxiety over children's well-being diminishes their independence.

A journalist turned teacher settles into his new profession.

Seven million free images are available to teachers and schools.

The actress is mad about math -- and mad that it isn't taught to be enjoyed.

A K-6 game for teaching responsible Internet usage, a comprehensive European digital library, a celebration of Poe's birth, and an online resource for environmental curriculum.

The first round of state funding will start in a few weeks.

$100 billion is headed to schools.

Educators have their eye on the federal government's funding plan, and how it might trickle down to the classroom.

Use these Web sites to help your students reconnect with the night sky.

How this student learned, through a high school music teacher, that arts education is an incalculable treasure.

Students often have a remarkable ability to create versions of themselves that may differ from the way their teachers see them.

Free standards-based resources for arts integration, comic books that teach math, an online community curriculum, and scrapbooking projects that get art into the classroom.

Schools and communities across the country have joined forces to develop enriched after-school and out-of-class programs -- something we like to call full-time learning.

Give students a lesson in navigation -- from the points of the compass to GPS mapping.

Teach your students how to sketch polygons and objects in perspective.

Students like Kimmy Feng architect their futures through Build San Francisco's mentorship/apprenticeship program.

Introduce students to field guides and species identification.

Build your students' observation skills through animal identification.

Providence's after-school AfterZone is a citywide system of engaging programs that at-risk middle-school students have taken ownership of.

Citizen Schools uses the hours after school to teach kids important lessons.

The Build San Francisco model turns students into aspiring designers and architects.

All of the programs in our New Day for Learning, Part Two, series have undergone outside evaluation to either gauge their success, improve performance, or both.

Thinking about implementing your own program? Here are some things that may help.

Conferences on literacy, English-language learners, learning disabilities, and dropout prevention, and the "World's Fair of Education."

In praise of teachers, arts education, and surviving algebra.

The programs in our New Day for Learning, Part Two, series have all undergone outside evaluation to either gauge their success, improve performance, or both.

Vocabulary used throughout the Citizen Schools curriculum.

Here's what you need to know before posting anything online.

NatureMapping offers these lessons to help your students get out of the classroom and into the field.

Teach students about size-distance relationships and making group estimates.

Guide students through the steps to create and deliver an oral presentation, and end with playing their golf hole.

Use these tips to overcome potential resource and attitude barriers in implementing the golf-hole project.

Practice teamwork skills and estimation by having students lay out a life-size replica of their golf holes.

We use these terms throughout this and other Build SF lessons.

Use research and flexibility to reach every student in the classroom.

The "one-woman financial-advice powerhouse" says job number one for educators is to inspire.

Two sites for your politically media-savvy students, kid-friendly (and kid-proof) stereo headphones, and a new service -- and possible muse -- for your brilliant brainstorms.

Conceptualize a project plan based on the four stages of the learning cycle.

Download these templates and worksheets to help you construct your course outline and lesson plans, and to evaluate your teaching performance.

Citizen Schools offers these lessons for schooling adult volunteers.

An interactive reading system; free, federal, online classroom materials; a provocative film comparing global high schools; and a school-supply donor site for classrooms in need.

Out in the baking desert of southeastern California, added professional support gives teachers a breath of fresh air.

Edutopia predicts: What's in store for the coming school year.

A mentor must offer support for both the head and the heart.

Where do the presidential candidates stand on public education?

Together, we can save our schools.

G-rated search, a browser for autistic children, free online ecology and alternative-energy games, electronic science labs, and a new, affordable, lightweight PC.

From devastated New Orleans they came, to learn and to heal.

Stereotypes and low pay keep men away from teaching. But that Y chromosome can make a huge difference in the classroom.

Mentor educators share tips about finding the best resources.

Nidya Baez talks about the importance of connecting with students and why she wants to teach in her own community.

Jonathon Kozol talks about building relationships, fostering creativity, and standing up for students.

Chicken soup for the classroom soul, world peace through film, strategies for struggling readers, and creating your own online comics.

The first U.S. Children's Poet Laureate reflects on his school years.

Teacher-preparation programs provide educators-to-be with the tools, mentors, and hands-on experience they'll need once they begin their career.

A film and its sequel help teachers and students talk about gay people.

How to link teacher compensation to teacher accomplishment -- and a look at a school that makes it work.

An invitation to explore the impact of smaller teachers' colleges on less-populated regions.

Goodies and gadgets for the teacher and student.