For decades, curriculum, pedagogy, and technology have evolved to meet the changing needs of students. But in many schools, the classroom environment itself hasn’t kept pace. Classic layouts that ...

During the move to online and remote education in response to COVID-19, I am writing a series of posts covering a variety of educational technologies that can help you transition to online or remote ...

Music teachers can keep students, families, and the wider school community informed by creating engaging posts.

Faculty strive to create learning environments that support respectful dialogue, intellectual risk-taking, and inclusive engagement. Classroom disruptions may interrupt learning spaces, however, and ...

One of my favorite parts of being an educator is the sense of community that is created with each new class of students. Fostering that feeling in person has its challenges of course, but is a bit ...

Dear Faculty Relations: I’ve had students make ignorant comments during class. How do I deal with microaggressions and other problems I see happening in my classroom and manage discussions about ...

What you don’t do is as important as what you do. Here’s something I wrote about the topic for Character Lab as a Tip of the Week: If I had a plan for doing well in 7th grade, it was this: Memorize ...

To maintain a classroom properly running, teachers are responsible for many behind-the-scenes tasks in addition to the actual in-classroom time spent with their students. As a result, teachers could ...

When Shira Hoffer arrived at Harvard in 2021, she was full of hope, not just about academics or independence, but about connection. As a graduate of a pluralistic Jewish day school, she had grown up ...

(This is an excerpt from my new book, The Student Motivation Handbook: 50 Ways to Boost an Intrinsic Desire to Learn) Self-Determination Theory, which may be the mostly widely known theory on human ...