Group work is a time-tested strategy in many classrooms, but educators are starting to rethink how to evaluate these projects not just on the content students learn, but the skills they hone to work ...
Surveys of employers routinely point to the value of preparing college graduates to be effective team players. As educators, we’ve responded with a now-familiar solution: the group project. But too ...
“Teamwork makes the dream work,” as the old adage goes, and the truth of this statement is in the numbers. Teams that feel connected and collaborate see higher profitability than teams that don’t, ...
Almost nothing important gets done alone. Despite the common narrative of “great people doing great things in difficult situations that lead to innovation and breakthroughs,” there are few successes ...
I remember the thrill when Mrs. Tanzman organized a fifth-grade circle. We were to become musicians, costume designers and producers of “South Pacific.” I was new to performing, and I learned lifelong ...
For April Fool’s Day, Reddit came up with an art project with a twist. You could only add one pixel at a time and you had to wait several minutes between pixels. With millions of people participating, ...
When Jeff Snyder founded Inspira Marketing Group in March 2008, he said he thought about how to build something “from scratch” that personified the company he envisioned. It would be a place with an ...