By rooting their professional development in learning science, this district helped teachers figure out which strategies to use more frequently, and which to retire.

Today’s post is the latest in a series examining how teachers can help students see how learning about science and math are relevant to their lives. Today’s post will focus on science. Bertha Vazquez ...

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? The desire to learn is partly a preference for novelty: we ...

I was terrified, to be very honest, when my district switched to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and I had to begin using phenomena-based instruction. If you look at the standards, ...

Daniel Willingham is a cognitive scientist, by which I mean, he is an academic researcher who extracts information from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Jonathan Firth does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Using Learning Science To Analyze the Risks and Benefits of AI in K-12 Education Before adopting AI tools, it is important that schools think critically about whether these tools will further divorce ...

Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...