Several schools, including ones in high-poverty areas, are making art critical to the learning of more academic subjects. They're seeing remarkable student
Why Spikeball™? At Spikeball Inc. we pride ourselves on the limitless possibilities for how and where this beautiful game can be played. Skill level, ability, location, and playing surface are merely ingredients in an epic concoction of physical education fun, creativity, and competition. When you bring a Spikeball™ se
Music teaching's an easy target and first for the chop when budgets are squeezed. We investigate a misguided approach that will have catastrophic consequences for our culture
Bees are able to grasp basic mathematical ideas, according to a new study, which suggests a small brain may not mean low intelligence. After training a group of the pollinating insects scientists at the French National Centre for Scientific Research found they were able to perform addition and subtraction. These abilities require animals to carry out intricate processes in
"The Objective" is an education podcast focused on providing engaging and content-driven strategies to social studies teachers with a healthy dose of material culture and teaching with objects.
In 1963, Richard Braddock, Richard Lowell-Jones, and Lowell Schoer set out to answer the big questions concerning how to best teach writing. They collaborated with NCTE and poured over every study and paper possible concerning the subject, and the result was Research in Written Composition, which among other breakthroughs made a startling claim: direct teaching…
The Power of the Student Voice Published by: mcSquares Students are our Customers. Just like a company has to hear from its consumers, so do teachers. Far too often, many of our students feel discouraged to share their thoughts in the classroom. As educators, there are a variety of techniques to change underlying feeli
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Windham Middle School
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