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As I watched my class interact close to the year’s end, I felt un-needed. This is a good...

As a new teacher, I faced the same dilemma every fall: What to put on the walls of my classroom?

Curating student work contributes to the school culture by valuing the students work and modeling high quality projects

High Tech High Chula Vista director Edrick Macalaguim shares what he's learned about building and restoring classroom culture from over 20 years working in schools

Ron Berger, Expeditionary Learning Chief Academic Officer, explaining the importance ...

Students researched a variety of animal communities through fieldwork, experts, ...

For students, engaging in one topic through multiple disciplines facilitates the kind of...

“You know how you can tell you’re in a happy school within 30 seconds of walking through the front door?” This is a statement/question that I’ve experienced on countless occasions during a lifetime spent in education. It has a ring of truth to it and we’ve all felt it as visitors or (worse) inspectors.

We wrote this chapter several years ago, in response to a request from the Sitra Foundation in Finland that we envision the school of the future. The chapter is dated in some respects, but apart from minimal updates and revisions for clarity, it appears here as written.

We learn most from the real experts in our classrooms: our students