Using student-driven ideas in lessons can help learners overcome distractions and stay on task, high-school teacher Dianne Pappafotopoulos writes. Pappafotopoulos shares how students’ interest in
Annie Griffin, principal of Tongue River Elementary School in Ranchester, Wyo., founded Project GIFT to encourage young children in her community to read. The program
Every teacher can relate to the feeling of what happens when a lesson doesn’t go as planned. The blank looks from students, the sinking realization
Few high-school seniors report that they are reading for pleasure, writes Kimberly Rues, a school librarian in Missouri. Rues offers several strategies to help reverse
Do games have a role in teaching and learning in the classroom? If so, how should they be used?
As students approach summer vacation, they have a confession to make: While 77 percent agree that summer reading will help them, 20 percent report not
Draw on the classroom environment to turn teens’ natural wiring for novelty, risk taking, and social rewards into cognitive assets.
As the school year comes to a close, Matthew Joseph, a director of digital learning, informational technology, and innovation in Massachusetts, says teachers can help
A coalition of charities is transforming laundromats into spaces in which students can read, draw and take part in activities to encourage reading and a
In a new set of guidelines, the World Health Organization said that infants under 1 year old should not be exposed to electronic screens and
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