The team competition is fierce in this informal assessment activity, in which students have to work together to win.

Elementary students benefit from opportunities to take a break from academic learning and explore activities that support their emotional development.

Teachers across the country share the most useful teaching tips they’ve learned—everything from the utility of Velcro to the power of periodically faking amnesia.

These simple strategies can help motivate middle and high school students to have engaging and productive classroom discussions.

Students are still learning, even during brief breaks, which serve to help them decompress, refocus, and process new information.

Encouraging students to bring their creativity and imagination to challenging content makes it more accessible—and helps them learn it more deeply.

Giving students a design challenge—and a compelling reason to delve into complex engineering—makes them more engaged, motivated, and committed to deepening their own understanding.

Fostering connections between subjects encourages students to think deeply about big problems and questions at the core of their work.

A Vermont school program connected to local trades shows how experiential learning can boost engagement for middle and high school students.

Dedicating a day each week to integrating science into every subject helped an elementary school boost attendance, learning, and fun.

Reconfiguring your classroom setup can help encourage student engagement during group discussions.

These intentional response strategies create entry points for students who may feel reticent to share in class discussions.

The benefits of movement in the classroom aren’t limited to younger students. Pairing new words and concepts with gestures or dance moves locks in understanding—and active brain breaks prime students to learn even more.

This four-step framework allows teachers to engage students in a short, powerful lesson. 

A well-known approach that combines high expectations with a firm belief in students’ ability to succeed can guide them to deeper learning.

In a world where their lives are heavily “shared and compared,” author Devorah Heitner offers insights on how to support teens in finding balance in their tech-heavy lives.

Students are still learning, even during brief breaks, which serve to help them decompress, refocus, and process new information.

Teaching executive functioning strategies and offering students choices helps foster their sense of ownership of their learning.

A toolkit of teacher-tested ideas to help build students’ ability to understand and express their feelings.

Feeling like you belong in school is critical to academic success—and there are research-backed strategies that educators can deploy, says Stanford psychologist Geoffrey Cohen.