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 ...

Project-based learning holds a lot of appeal. It’s hands on. It focuses on real challenges. And it engages students in self-directed, open-ended learning. But how can you design a course appropriate ...

What do special ed (SPED) and gifted students have in common? They both have unique educational challenges and are often removed from the classroom because traditional teaching methods don't "fit ...

In today's world, teachers have a long wish-list for their students: They want them to be globally competent, problem solvers, critical thinkers, technology literate and collaborative, to name just a ...

Project-based inquiry learning programs seem well suited to be part of the solution: They get students to participate in educational projects in the same basic ways that scientists would, with ...

We live in an ever-evolving world, powered by advancements across STEM fields. Today, STEM has become increasingly intertwined with how we live our daily lives–from how we learn, to how we work, to ...

On a Monday morning, Stacey Bryant-King's students are engrossed in making "slime" by mixing glue, baking soda and saline solution. She asked her class whether the slime comes from a chemical or ...

In 1974, Dennis Ebersole had been teaching math for only a few years, but he had already grown bored of doing it the old-fashioned way — lecturing straight from the textbook. Then he learned about a ...

ISLE OF WIGHT — Superintendent Jim Thornton laid out a project-based learning system Monday that could take shape in the next two years at Isle of County Schools. Thornton was joined by School Board ...