By rooting their professional development in learning science, this district helped teachers figure out which strategies to use more frequently, and which to retire.

Laurie McNeil, Bernard Gray Distinguished Professor Emerita, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will give a talk on “Learning by doing rather than teaching ...

In Uttar Pradesh’s government schools, a quiet reform is taking shape—one where students trade textbooks for tools, and science periods end not with recitations but with solar lamps, pulleys, and ...

Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn. (Lovett et ...

On a bright, sunny day, a group of first-graders eagerly begins a science investigation called “Shadow Town.” The teacher gathers them in a circle and asks, “What causes shadows?” It’s a good question ...