The great German Field Marshal Helmut von Moltke the Elder famously observed no plan survives contact with the enemy. Von Moltke’s point was that humans get a vote. What works for soldiers in one ...

This past spring, I overheard one of my fifth graders boast that he would start using ChatGPT to do his homework. I chuckled because I knew him well enough that he wouldn’t follow through. Frankly, I ...

Whittier Elementary School principal Andrea Lang Sims interacts with a student in Mesa, Arizona, which embraced team teaching about seven years ago. Credit: Matt York/ Associated Press The Hechinger ...

For Jennifer Connolly, principal of the 370-student Preston High School in the Bronx, being an instructional leader means actually getting back into the classroom. Connolly and her two assistant ...

A third grader throws a yarn ball — or carbon dioxide molecule — during Suzanne Horsley’s climate change lesson at Toll Gate Grammar School, in Pennington, New Jersey. Credit: Caroline Preston/The ...

Shari Conditt has been a teacher for nearly 25 years. She’s taught a variety of social studies courses and has always addressed presidential—and midterm—elections in class, starting with the 2000 ...

When I taught about social class in my Intimacy, Marriages and Families course this past semester, I began with reflection and a sticky note, not with a lecture or statistics. This wasn’t the first ...

There is now a body of literature questioning the link between small class size and student success. A new study of interactions between different class sizes and more than a dozen other variables ...

On a Wednesday morning in May, a dozen students streamed into their geometry class at the Cindy Avitia High School. But instead of looking toward the blackboard, the 10th-graders opened up their ...

Miss Kendrick came ready, with props. The day’s topic was the Gospel of Matthew. “You can divide all the Beatitudes into two parts,” Jennifer Kendrick explained to her teenage audience. “The ‘Blessed ...