What are you passionate about? What do you want to do more than anything in the world? Well I hope you said what you are doing right now. This is not always the case. Some people hate what they are ...

Marshall School held their Genius Hour Showcase highlighting the work of their students on Wednesday. December 17th. 7th grade science students and 8th grade English students got the chance to present ...

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Genius Hour is a combination of inquiry-based and passion-based learning. It is a time (usually one hour per week, but sometimes more) when students are able to learn about something they wonder about ...

With the onset of the so-called “new economy,” much of our educational systems is being questioned. With more than 40 percent of future work being independent contract work, what is the best way to ...

GREENCASTLE, Pa. — Sarah Diller invited several of her sixth-grade students to present their "Genius Hour" projects to the Greencastle-Antrim School Board on Thursday night. Genius Hour is a concept ...

Imagine being assigned a project at school with but one prerequisite: You must feel unequivocally,unrelentingly passionate about the subject at hand. That’s the idea behind “Genius Hour,” a pilot ...

Want to learn more about the Eiffel Tower or cyclonic separators? How do you make an animated flip book or bind a hardbound book? Just ask a fifth grader at Molin Upper Elementary School. Those are ...

“It bothers me that I am not learning things in school that will help me become what I want to be.” This is the most sobering and common response to one of three questions I ask my students before we ...

Washington Township's Orchard Valley Middle School seventh-grader Jared Mitchell shows off his balloon animal talents to seventh-grader Chrystian Aquilino (left) and sixth-grader Lester McCoy.

Time traveling, pinhole cameras and dirt bikes were all on display at Cherokee Middle School on Wednesday, as over 100 seventh-grade students presented their “Genius Hour” projects to visitors. The ...

DERRY — At the start of the school year, Ernest P. Barka Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Emily Burns knocked on her principal’s door with an idea. That idea, called Genius Hour, was to set aside ...