Karigon students sing about making good choices

How Can Schools Tap Into Parent Power For the Good of Students?

A program pays teachers to visit students at home and meet with their family. The home visits have helped parents become better-informed advocates for their kids and stronger allies with teachers.

Do No Harm: Flexible and Smart Grading Practices

Have students take responsibility for their grades and behavior by strategically offering opportunities to redo assignments, retake tests, and reflect on their performance.

Teaching Your Students How to Have a Conversation

Guest blogger Dr. Allen Mendler presents eight strategies for helping your students reclaim and master the lost art of conversation.

Love, loss and what I would sing: A meditation on “The Voice” auditions

“The Voice” auditions are the most beautiful things on TV. They are a metaphor for passion and risk

Why K-12 Arts Education Is Worth Saving

Students who are exposed to arts education show promise in other academic areas and show behavioral benefits too. So why aren't all educators doing more to save these programs in K-12 schools?

5 Ways to Use Student Choice to Improve Learning

Providing students with opportunities to make choices in their learning process can improve their long-term decisionmaking skills, says Thomas Armstrong.

Your Personality Will Reveal Which Disney Princess You Should Sing A Duet With

Why Choice Matters to Student Learning

Giving students choice in how they learn and show their knowledge gives them greater ownership over the process.

Do We Give Students Too Much Choice?

Student-centered classrooms that use problem-based learning and differentiation are not all that they're cracked up to be, writes teacher Brian Field.

Choice Equals Power: How to Motivate Students to Learn

Public school teacher Larry Ferlazzo shares ideas and tips about how to balance curriculum needs, test prep and the bigger goal of helping students develop the motivation to learn for themselves.

What Would You Do If You Thought You Were Alone on a Train?

Woman Sings Loudly When She Finds Herself Alone On Train, Until She Realizes She's Not

What Giving Students Choice Looks Like in the Classroom

1. People to Work With. Give students the chance to choose whether to work independently or with another student(s). As a teacher, you can still maintain some control by giving students input. Poll t…

Build student-centered learning the right way

Lead & Transform panelists discuss how to give the classroom — and the learning — back to the students.

Too Few Schoolwork Assignments Offer Students Choice, Relevance, Study Finds.

A review of more than 6,800 schoolwork assignments finds that only a fraction were relevant for students or offered them some say in how the work was done or what they studied. And that could be a problem.

Can You Find Me? PreK

Starts your students on the road to critical thinking.

3 Simple Steps to Help Students Become a Global Citizen

Students can become a global citizen. It starts with a connected teacher. In these simple steps you can connect students with the world.

Giving Students More Choice During Distance Learning: Tips and Resources

By Patti Drapeau, author of Inspiring Student Empowerment: Moving Beyond Engagement, Refining Differentiation Student choice makes a difference. When students make choices, they are invested in the…

3 ways connected educators transform learning

To bring about the changes students need, educators must first invest in themselves.

4 Easy Improv Warm-ups for Speaking Classes

This post includes four simple and silly warm-ups from the world of improv comedy that lower student affect and build community and enthusiasm.