Project-Based Learning
Projects That Have Been Put to the Test
A team of researchers created and tested four social studies units that improved achievement among students in high-poverty schools. See how they did it—and download their curriculum.
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Teacher Wellness
Teachers: Summer Reading to Cultivate Your Emotional Resilience
Immerse yourself in these books to renew yourself for the coming school year.
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Project-Based Learning
New Study Shows the Impact of PBL on Student Achievement
Researchers in Michigan show that project-based learning in high-poverty communities can produce statistically...
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The Research Is In
Using Clickers? A Note of Caution
A new study shows that the popular edtech devices can improve fact retention but hinder deeper understanding.
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Teaching Strategies
Mastering the Teaching Game
After listening to an interview with top tennis coach Sven Groeneveld, Carol Tomlinson clarifies eight essential...
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Teaching Strategies
Smart Strategies for Student Success
Five techniques you can use with students in any class to help boost their long-term learning outcomes.
Learning Environments
Photos: Classrooms That Really Move
These traveling art studios, science labs, and greenhouses are reducing barriers to access by meeting students where they are.
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Interest-Based Learning
Standards-Aligned Genius Hour
Give your students a chance to follow their own interests with projects that meet state standards.
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Community Partnerships
The Big List of Educational Grants and Resources
Get a roundup of educational grants, contests, awards, free toolkits, and classroom guides aimed at helping students, classrooms, schools, and communities. Check this page weekly to get the latest updates!
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Teacher Collaboration
Want to Improve a District? Let Teachers Lead the Way
A Connecticut superintendent put teachers and students at the forefront of all decisions and transformed a district.
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Trading Places
Birmingham Covington: Building a Student-Centered School
Educators take on the role of guides and motivate students to direct their own learning.
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Learning Environments
The Sensory Room: Helping Students With Autism Focus and Learn
Imagine a safe space where students with autism can go to calm their bodies and then get back to the business of learning.
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Social and Emotional Learning
13 Powerful SEL Activities
Build social and emotional skills into any class.
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Community Partnerships
The Big List of Educational Grants and Resources
Get a roundup of educational grants, contests, awards, free toolkits, and classroom guides aimed at helping students, classrooms, schools, and communities. Check this page weekly to get the latest updates!
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Student Engagement
9 Strategies for Motivating Students in Mathematics
Keep your high school math students engaged with these techniques.
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Learning Environments
Rebooting Industrial Era Seating
Two educators present ideas for transforming our classrooms to meet the challenges of the future in this excerpt from their new book.
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Brain-Based Learning
Overcoming the Principle of Least Effort
Humans naturally try to get by with minimal work. Here are a few simple ways to push your students to think harder.
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Project-Based Learning
New Study Shows the Impact of PBL on Student Achievement
Researchers in Michigan show that project-based learning in high-poverty communities can produce statistically significant gains in social studies and informational reading.
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Place-Based Learning
When Your School Is a Museum
In Grand Rapids, Michigan, an award-winning school has been the catalyst for a district turnaround after a 20-year decline.
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Service Learning
Tips for Combining Project-Based and Service Learning
Help your students find a larger sense of purpose in their schoolwork even as they achieve educational goals.
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Service Learning
What the Heck Is Service Learning?
Here's a simple definition for service learning with details and resources for planning a unit.
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Social and Emotional Learning
Project Au-Some: Building Empathy and Collaboration
Through partnering with a preschool special ed class, fifth-grade students learned and taught their community about...
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Project-Based Learning
Constructive Thinking and the Perfect Fixer-Upper
High school students can take a class that, through a joint effort by their school district and community, lets them...
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Student Engagement
Fire Up Your Class With Student-Interest Surveys
What interests your students? Ask them, and then incorporate it into your curriculum. These tips will get you started.
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Student Engagement
A Solution for Student Disengagement
Tap students’ leadership potential to help them form strong bonds with each other and with their school.
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Teacher Appreciation
6 Traits of Life-Changing Teachers
We asked our community what makes teachers unforgettable. Here’s what they said.
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Student Voice
How Do Teachers Change Lives?
We asked some students, and this is what they told us.
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