Assigning students to represent class conversations visually—with words, drawings, and symbols—boosts engagement and agency.

This seems to be the common rule in most classrooms. It is easily explained in a lecture setting. Indeed, everyone must be focused on what the professor is saying. A discussion would only create a ...

At some point in their career, every teacher will find themselves having a difficult discussion with their students. My first took place not long after I began teaching. It involved one of my students ...

When Shira Hoffer arrived at Harvard in 2021, she was full of hope, not just about academics or independence, but about connection. As a graduate of a pluralistic Jewish day school, she had grown up ...

When I first started teaching, my attitude toward students who remained silent in discussion classes could be summed up with the words of Bernard Hopkins, the fistic sage of Philadelphia: “Bernard ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — A new policy approved by the University of Texas System Board of Regents is limiting classroom discussion of certain "controversial topics" across the UT System, but the ...

I am grateful for the care and commitment you bring each day to your classrooms—inspiring students to share their insights and experiences in an authentic way. This, of course, contributes to creating ...