For this fifth year of The Seattle Times Student Voices project, we invited students from Washington public high schools and colleges to work with Education Lab to write about issues of educational ...
How can I get started incorporating project-based learning into my teaching? Teaching is a lot like running. Research has found that running as little as five to 10 minutes a day can have a massive ...
David Ross is a global education consultant and former CEO of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21). After holding national and international education leadership roles for 15 years, in ...
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On a recent Friday morning, Franklin High School sophomore Chase Hatcher found himself in jail. His “cell”, demarcated by a ...
The California-based nonprofit PBLWorks recently announced a partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education on a multi-year initiative to use virtual training to bring project-based learning to ...
Educators who invest in project-based learning (PBL) say the benefits are obvious: real-world relevance and a sense of purpose lead to higher classroom engagement and better knowledge retention among ...
When the goal is to practice college-level research, build entrepreneurial skills and prepare students for collaborative careers, one Chicago school recognizes the need to incorporate information ...
Heather B. Hayes has been covering technology, business and education topics for more than 20 years and has written more than 2,000 published articles. She lives in Virginia. When Kimberly ...
One of the best things the Santa Fe Area Home Builders Association did in recent years was get behind the resurrection of trades-based education for Santa Fe Public Schools. Such education had reached ...
The new question-of-the-week is: How can teachers tell when the use of arts and crafts enhances learning in a lesson from times when it’s just busy work? Arts and crafts can obviously be used ...