Monthly Archives: September 2024

In a recent report, pre-teen boys showed the greatest struggle with conduct problems while teen girls had the highest levels of depression and anxiety symptoms. Ten years ago Roy F. Smith, an English teacher at Round Rock High School in Texas, was inspired by the idea of putting a text under a microscope while reading […]

Feeling like your children and partner are grateful for all of the work that you do is linked to improved relationship quality, lower parenting stress and a lower risk for psychological distress. Matthew Kraft, an associate professor of education and economics at Brown University, was an early proponent of giving tutors — ordinarily a luxury […]

After the elimination of remedial classes, students passed more college courses. But the extra credit accumulation effect quickly faded, and graduation rates didn’t increase. View the full episode transcript. To an outside observer, there’s nothing particularly special about the beige rug at the front of Miranda Lyle’s fourth grade classroom. But for Lyle, it’s the […]

Teaching living poets not only makes poetry more fun; it also makes it more accessible and relevant to students and empowers them as readers and writers. We are still in the early days of understanding the promise and peril of using generative AI in education. Very few researchers have evaluated whether students are benefiting, and […]

Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry scene. But you won’t find them in many text books, because high school poetry units tend to focus on dead poets, like Robert Frost, Walt […]

The past year has seen growing momentum for district and statewide bans on cellphones in schools. But not everyone is enthusiastic about such policies. View the full episode transcript. On a spring afternoon last year, students in Melissa Alter Smith’s class bustled around the room, filling 16 ounce plastic bottles with hot water, food dye, […]

Rather than think of formative assessment as a drawn-out process, it helps to focus on using tools that will tell us what we need to know quickly. From Small but Mighty: How Everyday Habits Add Up to More Manageable and Confident Teaching (pp. 78-80), by M. Plotinsky, 2024, ASCD. Copyright 2024 by ASCD. Reprinted with […]