Science teacher Michelle Underwood once described herself as a "death-by-PowerPoint" lecturer. Today her classroom hums with the energy of students absorbed in collaborative learning projects. Her personal transformation helped change her school.
In Louisville, Kentucky, Jefferson County Public Schools are seeing positive results from a districtwide commitment to the CARE for Kids program made just two years ago.
Teachers Dayna Laur (AP government) and Katlyn Wolfgang (art) at Central York High School in York, Pennsylvania, share their strategies for creating successful integrated studies projects. To learn more, check out our interview with them in How to Integrate Art and Politics to Improve High School Student Engagement.
Discover successful schools and strategies across the country -- and use their best teaching practices, training materials, and rubrics with your students.
A public middle school and high school in Whitfield County, Georgia show how to recreate the learning strategies of a renowned charter school in a traditional setting.
Seymour Papert, a distinguished professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is among a growing group of scholars who support project-based learning.
Through video observation, collaborative planning, and candid, and constructive criticism, math teachers Mike Fauteux and Rose Zapata, who teach at Leadership Public School in Hayward, CA, have devised a formula to improve their practice and increase student achievement. To learn more, check out our interview with them in Team Teaching: How to Work with a Partner.