Waiting for the next assignment or task, while not knowing what it may be, is very difficult for students. Yet, in some (perhaps...many) classrooms too many students wait at their desks for the next ...

The cover of John Hattie’s Visible Learning boasts the blurb “Reveals teaching’s Holy Grail.” Everybody in education needs to get it. If Hattie’s subtitle, A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses ...

Visible Learning changed our practices away from activities that are actually harmful, like grade retention. It changed our beliefs about things like ability grouping and whole language reading, ...

An Environmental Studies professor designs an undergraduate-level critical thinking course on Sustainable Food Systems to promote engaged student learning. ENVS 3525-002 Sustainable Food Systems is a ...

From 2016 to 2021, Making Teaching & Learning Visible (MTLV) brought together faculty in a collaborative community to redesign their courses. Over an academic year, participants worked in cohorts, ...

Personalized learning has been a buzzword in education since the turn of the century. But what does it really mean? This past fall, I met with several education leaders to discuss this very topic and ...

BENTONVILLE -- The learning pit: It sounds like a place to avoid. But for students at Apple Glen Elementary School, the pit is an important step on the path to becoming a strong learner, Principal ...

All learning should carry a value. As things stand in our society, the only kind of learning to which a value of sorts is attached is formal learning, the one covered by academia or formal training, ...