Quick, low-stakes observations focused on student learning allow administrators to provide teachers with useful feedback on instruction.

If you have a serious need to memorize, you usually must take notes. Just what is it that I think is valuable about note taking? First and foremost is the requirement for engagement. Students must pay ...

Hand-written notes inevitably engage thinking and decisions about what to write down, how to represent the information, and where on the page to put specific items. A formal experiment has been ...

This post is the second in an ongoing series about small teacher moves that have the potential of a big impact on students. Sydney Chaffee, the 2017 National Teacher of the Year, is a 9th grade ...

New research shows learning erosion is real—but evidence-anchored design, governance, and assessment can turn AI into an ...

Students whose STEM courses are taught using active learning perform better than those taught with traditional lectures. That was the top-line finding of a widely cited 2014 meta-analysis, and it has ...

Have you ever left a lecture or finished reading a chapter with pages of neatly written notes, only to realize later that you barely remember the material? For decades, note-taking has been hailed as ...