Student Voice

Puppets help early childhood teachers encourage deeper relationships and bolster their learners’ confidence and communication skills.

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.

Teachers and students can get off to a good start by determining their values and setting expectations for each other as a group.

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.

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

A simple, tightly focused student survey can help teachers quickly home in on areas to improve—but you need to be fully prepared to make changes.

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

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

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.

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.

After a year fraught with inequities, a well-crafted survey can help teachers discover and plan how to meet students’ needs.

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