When Michelle D. Miller leads faculty workshops, she often does what she calls a “party trick” that she uses on the first day of class with her students: learning everyone’s names. As professors have ...

Extrinsic motivation gets a bad rap, but middle and high school teachers can use it judiciously early in an activity to ...

Education is not just about acquiring information, but about training the mind to think, observe, reason, and connect ideas meaningfully.

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

Hybrid learning, lecture capture and generative artificial intelligence tools tailor lessons to individual student needs.

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

Teachers don’t need to speak students’ home languages to use them as a resource for learning and creating a sense of ...

The future of history education lies in empowering students to engage in intensive research with carefully curated collections of primary sources, enhanced by AI-driven tools that provide context, ...

Marin Country Day School, a lower and middle school, is nestled in the valley of Ring Mountain in Nothern California, just north of the San Francisco Bay. A seasonal creek that runs along the school’s ...