Sonia, a fourth grader, pointed proudly to her essay, hanging prominently in her classroom with six others as examples of “supporting a claim with evidence.” The essay was one of dozens of artifacts ...

This post is by John Larmer, editor in chief of the Buck Institute for Education, and Bob Lenz, executive director of the Buck Institute for Education. Follow them @JohnLBIE and @PBLBob. In part one ...

A majority of teachers expressed discomfort with newer teaching practices that rely on technology and said they need more collaborative planning time with their peers, in addition to traditional PD.

Elizabeth Vega teaches pre-kindergarten at Loma Verde Elementary in Novato, California. Her school and district leaders want to do more project-based learning and have invested in getting teachers ...

Faculty will deepen their knowledge of teaching based upon research-based practices, to include High-Impact Practices, Transparency in Learning and Teaching, Backwards Design, and Taxonomies of ...

Professor Pei-San Tsai in the Department of Integrative Physiology, like many at CU Boulder, knows the limitations of current teaching assessment practices that tend to reward the number of classes ...

Research on student learning and success in college has produced compelling evidence that high-impact teaching practices benefit students greatly. Exposure to such practices has been linked to greater ...

Science instructors increasingly are moving beyond the lecture to more innovative -- and effective -- teaching methods. But professors with a taste for change often enact it alone, as their colleagues ...

TRESTLE is a multi-university project aimed at implementing and studying a model of STEM education reform, with the ultimate goal of achieving widespread adoption of empirically-validated ...

For parents of children who always say, “Why?” and “How?” and “Show me more,” the project-based preschool approach will give their natural curiosity wings. Problem-solvers and deep thinkers will ...

Faculty will deepen their knowledge of teaching based upon research-based practices, to include High-Impact Practices, Transparency in Learning and Teaching, Backwards Design, and Taxonomies of ...