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Childhood's End: Growing Up Too Fast
Something is lost when little red wagons and mud pies make way for worksheets and tests.
Emotional Intelligence: The Missing Piece
Social and emotional learning can help students successfully resolve conflict, communicate clearly, solve problems, and much more.
Balancing the Classroom: Strategies for Sharing Responsibility
posted by Ken MessersmithA teacher in our local school district recently posted a question on one of our discussion boards: “I’m having a difficult time coming up with ideas on how to give my students more responsibility and freedom in my classroom. I am very structured and organized -- how can I give my eighth graders a little freedom in the classroom and retain structure and organization?”
More Fun Than a Barrel of . . . Worms?!
At Newsome Park Elementary, project-based learning assignments are helping students learn more, participate more, and want more.
Knowing How You Learn: Schools Attuned
At San Francisco's Gateway High School, a diverse group of students learn how their brains work and how to accommodate their learning styles. Most important, they discover that there is no one "right" way to learn.
Team Learning: Teaching Students to Work Together
Integrated curricula, team teaching, and technology tools have built up the academic achievement and self-esteem of these rural Louisiana middle school students.
Biotech Academy: Challenging Assumptions and Changing Lives
This school-within-a-school puts the emphasis on academics and a future career.
Wetland Watchers: Kids Care for Their Environment
Through this nationally recognized service-learning project in Louisiana, students have become stewards of the area's fragile wetlands.
Teaching with Tangles: The Barbed Wire Model of Classroom Management
posted by Ben JohnsonI had an epic battle with a tangle of barbed wire a while ago. I'm glad to report that my cuts and scratches are healing nicely, and I'd like to share with you about how this battle revealed to me a number of brilliant truths about classroom management.
Art Works: Integrating Creativity in the Curriculum
At one Boston school, arts and academics are inseparable.
