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When students hit cognitive roadblocks, these strategies will help them pause, rethink their approach, and reengage with their learning process.

As educators, we often hear about the importance of teaching critical thinking skills to our students. What we hear about less, however, are the most effective techniques for teaching those skills and ...

Do you want to integrate creative methods in your classroom and research? Design and hands-on making can be valuable to academic pursuits in all disciplines. We’re here to partner with faculty to ...

What is “design thinking,” and why does it belong in America’s classrooms? Actually, as cognitive scientist Lindsay Portnoy explains in this post, many teachers are already using design thinking but ...

As educators, we develop lesson plans with careful consideration and effort. When one works, we fall in love, hesitant to change it too much for fear that change might bring less student success. The ...

Many thanks to Julie Colantoni, first-grade teacher at Memorial School in Medfield, MA, for sharing her story. You can learn more about the exciting happenings in her classroom on her blog. A few ...

Some learning spaces at St Catherine’s have shed the traditional classroom layout in favour of something more sophisticated and effective. During Year 9 humanities classes, as part of a program called ...

The SchoolWide Lab middle school curriculum units are anchored in phenomena, aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS), and purposefully integrate Computational Thinking (CT). To date, ...

Would Teaching "Critical Thinking" Help Both Students and Politicians? By guest blogger, Dr. Charles Temple Elsewhere in the region, we asked teachers why training in critical thinking was important ...