Close observation during tasks helps teachers correct misunderstandings and celebrate when students are getting things right.

It was Halloween, and school social worker Tricia Van Horssen was dressed as Anger, the cartoon character from “Inside Out,” when she was assaulted by one of her students. The costume, she said, was ...

Student behavior problems continue to plague schools, and educators say they’ve actually grown more serious, according to a recent survey by the EdWeek Research Center. Nearly half of teachers, school ...

A growing number of educators are turning to 'strategic noticing'—a strengths-based approach to classroom behavior management that emphasizes reinforcing positive actions over reacting to negative ...

In The Angry Smile: The Psychology of Passive Aggressive Behavior in Families, Schools and Workplaces, 2nd ed., we propose that the passive-aggressive student seems to derive genuine pleasure out of ...

In close to three decades of teaching special education at the Nicholson STEM Academy in Chicago, Winnie William-Halls had never taken a long break from her career. That changed last year—and it was ...

Assessing student learning effectively is often complicated by relying on ambiguous proxies such as grades, quiz scores, or assumptions about students' internal states, such as what they feel, think, ...

Since at least 2022, the education world has been preoccupied with the “teacher exodus”: a troubling trend of teachers quitting at record rates. Though attrition has eased somewhat since its pandemic ...

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