Quick, low-stakes observations focused on student learning allow administrators to provide teachers with useful feedback on instruction.

If you have a serious need to memorize, you usually must take notes. Just what is it that I think is valuable about note taking? First and foremost is the requirement for engagement. Students must pay ...

Hand-written notes inevitably engage thinking and decisions about what to write down, how to represent the information, and where on the page to put specific items. A formal experiment has been ...

New research shows learning erosion is real—but evidence-anchored design, governance, and assessment can turn AI into an ...

This post is the second in an ongoing series about small teacher moves that have the potential of a big impact on students. Sydney Chaffee, the 2017 National Teacher of the Year, is a 9th grade ...

Have you ever left a lecture or finished reading a chapter with pages of neatly written notes, only to realize later that you barely remember the material? For decades, note-taking has been hailed as ...

Students whose STEM courses are taught using active learning perform better than those taught with traditional lectures. That was the top-line finding of a widely cited 2014 meta-analysis, and it has ...