“How many pages do you want?” “How long should our presentation be?” “How many sources should we have?” These questions may be common in your classroom, but it’s important to know... read more

 “Across the country, kindergartners are being told what to do and how to do it, every single step along the way, all day long. They play less and study more than they did 20... read more

“When you’re in middle school …” Several times a week, our fifth-grade teacher waxed poetic about the increased rigor that awaited us in sixth grade. We would have to turn in our... read more

A slide in the cafeteria? For one school, it’s all part of the culture of “surprise and delight.” In Eminence, Kentucky, the cafeteria slide is only one part of the EDHub, a 30,... read more

“We can’t reduce our kids to a Lexile level and hope to see them succeed. We have to do the hard work of building relationships and developing resilience and empathy in the... read more

In an article for edutopia.org, Vicki Davis, a full-time teacher and information technology (IT) consultant, muses, “Sometimes I’m afraid our students think that because we have... read more