Teachers can foster a healthy classroom culture with these easy-to-plan activities that spark thinking, sharing, and ...

Amidst the discussions about content standards, curriculum and teaching strategies, it's easy to lose sight of the big goals behind education, like giving students tools to deepen their quantitative ...

Even though it was the last week of the academic year at Two Rivers Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., fifth-grade teacher Katie Mancino was putting her students through their paces.

Part 1. Some thinking about thinking. Unpacking thinking ; Putting thinking at the center of the educational enterprise -- Part 2. Using thinking routines to make thinking visible. Introduction to ...

Purpose: What kind of thinking does this routine encourage? This routine cultivates observation, description, explanation-building, and evidence-based reasoning. Because students share their ...

KQED's Mindshift podcast visits a language arts classroom where an extroverted teacher has developed creative ways of inviting introverted students to share their thinking. When students head back to ...