The new question-of-the-week is: What is a professional learning community and how can educators build one? Teaching can be an isolated profession—we’re in our rooms all day with students. Students ...

Times of crisis are disorienting, and some crises lead to more extended periods of disorder than others. At the same time, widespread crises also have the potential to deliver a kind of clarity that ...

While the young children in my classroom know how to play together, they often do not intuitively know how to work together. Free time at home, with nothing scheduled and no electronics, is the ...

The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework recognizes the importance of interactions between the teaching, social and cognitive presences in creating positive and collaborative learning communities.

In an interview with the Smithsonian Science Education Center, Dr. Melissa Collins, a veteran elementary school teacher shares her wisdom and expertise in supporting students with access to STEM ...

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I have now been teaching at Duke University for 20 years. I have been through all kinds of teaching fads—active learning, team-based learning, alternative grading, service learning, etc. You might ...

The other day, while my children and I were playing outside, the ball we were throwing accidentally flew out of the yard. Under normal circumstances, I would have opened the gate, and we'd race to see ...

How do we reconcile educational practices that often push toward individual achievement with the biblical call to mutual service and interdependent community? Care for how we live together and seek ...

Do you feel destined to pursue a career where you get to help others? Whether you see yourself as part of a medical team caring for patients or in a classroom teaching the next generation, the College ...