Middle-school math teacher Michael Giardi uses hooks and prompts at the beginning of class to engage students. In this blog post, he describes how the approach promotes productive struggle and gets students thinking like mathematicians.

Students with autism at a Tennessee elementary school are learning social-interaction skills with the help of Milo the Robot. Teacher Billy Etter says students have shown across-the-board growth since they began interacting with Milo.

How do trips to the gym correlate with quitting school? 60 Minutes visits a college that's using predictive analytics to find out.

Bringing more students - including those who may be reluctant - into class discussions can help develop their communication and thinking skills, asserts educator Jori Krulder. In this blog post, she offers several tips for opening up classroom discussions to all students.

Writing improves our thinking by helping us focus and organize our thoughts, which allows us to communicate more effectively and demonstrate a deeper understanding of content. That's just as important to STEM learning as it is to English language arts. But what types of writing tasks are appropriate and engaging across content areas?

Not long after 'co-location' became a buzz word around Blenheim, one school was given a tidy sum to test modern learning. Jennifer Eder reports.

Curiosity may correlate to better performance in maths and reading among all students, but especially for those from low-socioeconomic backgrounds, according to a study published in the journal Pediatric Research. Researchers say the findings support more emphasis on curiosity in early learning.

Game-based learning can help support history lessons, writes Paul Darvasi, a high-school English and media studies teacher in Toronto. In this blog post, he shares examples, including how video games can help students examine the reliability of historic primary-source documents.

Teachers should strike the right balance and tone when talking in class, according to Neil Mercer, emeritus professor of education at the University of Cambridge in England. In this podcast, he discusses the research behind talk in the classroom and offers strategies to improve the spoken language skills of teachers and students.

Random acts of kindness have increased 92% at a New Jersey middle school since it adopted a positive-behavior program. The Hero program embeds rewards into the school culture, and students earn points for good behavior, such as being on time.

Teaching keeps school leaders connected to students and other teachers and lets them feel the effects of their own decisions.

In recent years, technology has played a significant role in reshaping the landscape of college teaching, and it will surely continue to do so. But the groundswell of artificial intelligence (AI) that surrounds us marks a particularly fragile moment for teaching.