Six takeaways for teachers who want to give students more control over their learning without inviting disaster.

Are teachers monitoring how much they talk vs. how much their students do? Research and teacher experience suggest they should be.

Students often veer off-task, talking about Fortnite or Lizzo. Noise levels rise. Conflicts erupt. Are they really learning? Whether it’s productive to allot precious classroom minutes for children to ...

Communication professor establishes ground rules for political conversations with his students in class. Could they be useful to other academics struggling with how to encourage productive ...

Students learn a lot from debating ideas, sharing feedback and collectively exploring big questions — talking in class. Some tech companies are creating tools to try to faciliate group discussions.

Students will return to college this fall after months of protests and debate on racism. How do you prepare for those conversations in your classes?

Dear Kid Whisperer, I have a corner in my seventh-grade classroom where I send students who cause problems over and over. They have to stay there until I come talk to them, at which point, I find out ...

It doesn’t hurt to remind students that behaviors like these contradict classroom or school rules (if they do), but it’s also important to reiterate why there are rules about these kinds of ...

A critical component of any student’s educational journey is learning how to be better organized, complete tasks independently and persevere when an assignment is difficult. We’ve all seen (or even ...

A lecturer in marketing at the University of Richmond writes about his first experience teaching an online class, and the unexpected intensity of student participation.

The dependence and distraction are the center of our final installment of our "Calling All Kids" special series. Part 1: Social media use Part 2: School violence Each of the students who spoke ...