Collaborative Learning

Working together to solve problems and complete projects deepens students' learning and builds collaborative skills. Learn how to design activities to help develop these skills.

How Learning Happens
Encouraging Academic Conversations With Talk Moves
Sentence starters that students use to join a class discussion encourage both academic thinking and social connectedness.
Collaborative Learning
60 Second-Strategy: Cooperative Learning Roles
Giving students randomly assigned roles in their group work helps ensure that they all participate.
Learning Environments
A ‘University’ Model for High School
In small-town Wisconsin, four schools cluster on one campus, fostering a culture of experimentation and self-directed learning for both students and teachers.
The Research Is In
3 Ways to Maximize Peer-to-Peer Learning
Simple strategies you can use to have kids teach each other—a research-proven path to better learning.
Collaborative Learning
Designing a Public School From Scratch
On a mission to reimagine traditional schooling, a K–8 school in San Diego puts teachers and students at the center.
Collaborative Learning
Learning on Their Feet
Vertical learning—a framework for high quality group work—showcases student thinking for everyone to see.
Project-Based Learning
How Can We Successfully Land a Rover on Mars?
The classic egg drop experiment gets reinvented as a driving question for physics students to explore a real-world problem.
Collaborative Learning
Staying On Task During Project-Based Learning
Brief daily meetings give students working in groups the structure to hold each other accountable on long-term projects.
Brain-Based Learning
Learning and the Social Brain
In a series of interviews, researcher Patricia Kuhl reveals the science behind the social brain—which she calls the gateway to human cognition.
Brain-Based Learning
What Is the Social Brain?
The research is in: Learning is a social endeavor.