Student Voice

After a challenging year of pandemic schooling, these activities help students reflect on what they’ve learned and look forward to what’s coming next.

When students lead the conversation in their parent-teacher conferences, they take ownership of their learning and growth.

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

There’s a powerful academic impact, new research reveals, when students are voracious, voluntary readers.

When the staff at an elementary school made fostering a love of reading a priority, they used these strategies to meet their goal.

Alumni at a predominantly White high school opened up about the racism they experienced as students—and helped change the culture of the school.

When students have a say in choosing driving and supporting standards for project-based learning units, they get invested in the outcomes.

When teachers take the time to build strong relationships with students, it sets the stage for productive learning.

Negotiating due dates with a class can help increase students’ feelings of accountability—to their teacher and to each other.

Many teachers find it difficult to gauge how well students understand a lesson in an online classroom. A technique common among award-winning online instructors should help.

How one teacher quit “hanging a grade-based incentive over my students’ heads” and offered different, more inclusive ways for students to participate.

With some simple supports, students in grades 3 to 8 can take the wheel and assume some responsibility for their learning journey.

Cookie-cutter essays may reflect students’ attitude toward the assignment, not their writing ability. Here’s a way to make that stack of grading more rewarding.

Teachers are finding ways to gauge students’ understanding of lessons this year, and guiding them to ask for help is a crucial piece of the puzzle.

In a series of interviews with master teachers, a reporter finds that certain intangible qualities matter more than the best tactics.