Creativity

A focus on belonging, creativity, and metacognition is helping one school lead students away from superficial learning.

When students focus on what they can see, hear, touch, taste, and smell in a work of art, their imaginations—and their essay-writing skills—take flight.

Asking middle and high school students to sketch something they’re learning can give teachers a clear sense of what they do and don’t understand.

The possibilities for creating a sensory path to give students a movement break are endless. Here’s what schools across the country are doing.

Encouraging student-led exploration and performance can help make Shakespeare’s plays accessible and fun for middle schoolers.

Though they have the potential to excel in many fields, we’re neglecting a large body of students with a unique set of skills.

Short, authentic writing tasks can encourage high school students to compose richer long pieces.

Encouraging upper elementary and middle school students to collaborate in solving a problem helps cement science learning.

Teachers can guide students to share their learning with different groups of people, creating a deeply engaging learning experience.

In less than 20 minutes each, these six brilliant TEDx Talks explore topics like chronic exhaustion, cultural identity, and emotional intelligence, among others.

Structuring a school around the arts can help students excel academically and develop social and emotional skills.

Visual note-taking allows information to be processed by the brain in three different ways.

A simple framework can help upper elementary students find the perfect method to share their learning with their classmates.