9-12 High School

The science of learning encompasses findings in several fields, and these steps help demystify it and encourage gradual adoption—one strategy at a time.

We asked members of our community to share recently published novels they would love to have read in high school. Here are your top picks.

Teachers can take a step back and create lessons that put student explorations at the center of learning.

A look at ways teachers can refine their practices to help ensure that students absorb and process information so they can retrieve it later.

Carefully working on relationship building right from the start of the school year can help teachers avoid discipline issues.

The learning scientist Manu Kapur, architect of the theory of productive failure, on reframing our notion of failure, and letting kids stumble (but with purpose).

With a few shifts in the classroom, teachers can encourage students to pay more attention to the skills they are building than to a number or letter score.

Strategies for fostering relationships with middle and high school students starting on the first day of the school year and then growing them all year long.

When high school students present a lesson, they actively engage in learning and grow their research, organizational, and speaking skills.

Neurodiverse students often struggle with organization in middle and high school, but they can be successful with the proper supports.

This innovative assessment tool has students engage in metacognitive reflection by assembling and presenting evidence of their learning.

Waiting for a teacher’s support can be hard for some students, but with the right strategies, they can learn to use this time productively.

High school students can explore core ideas like self-reliance and civil disobedience as they read ‘Walden’ and engage in the game.