It might be impossible for any one person to adopt every pet in need of a good home, but these kids are doing the next best thing — by bringing shy shelter dogs out of their shells.

60 Ways To Help Students Think For Themselves

Many schools are opting to ditch the traditional school curriculum altogether to motivate students in new ways—and it seems to be working.

By approaching math as a creative endeavor in young children, parents and educators can cultivate some of the skills that are valued in advanced mathematics.

Schools are teaching sketchnoting as an innovative way to help students synthesize information that's important. Doodlers are making connections from what they hear to what they draw.

Biteslide is an excellent web tool that teachers and students can use to present and create slidebooks. A Slidebook is a presentations that embeds an amazing blend of different multimedia materials that include images, videos, and text. Biteslide is specifically designed for students and teachers and provides an intuitive and safe environment where students and even young learners can experiment with the creation of interactive presentations.

The next generation of leaders are striving to do it differently. Check out the chart to see where your skills lie!

Connection and all of its implications is one of the most important concepts in understanding, engaging in, and facilitating powerful learning experiences.

While many skills have become obsolete in the digital age, map reading remains an important tool for building children's spatial reasoning skills and helping them make sense of our world.

Approaching the world with a growth mindset can be very liberating. It gives educators and students freedom to try new approaches, reflect on the positives and negatives, and then try again.

When a society changes, so then must its tools.

Definitions of purpose and quality must also be revised continuously. What should a school “do”? Be? How can we tell a good school from a bad one?

Mentors change lives. If schools replaced teachers with mentors, classrooms would be revolutionized forever. This isn’t semantics – it’s a paradigm shift…

The creative possibilities of a school makerspace will become obvious once you find the space, find the money, find the tools, and find the students.

Salon spoke with Art Markman, a cognitive psychologist and podcaster, on the ups and downs of the Pixar movie

Teachers find the most success integrating technology into the classroom when they have clear instructional goals.