Active Learners are Building Bridges

Active learners are building bridges in a Studio 6 classroom at Breckenridge Elementary School in Wahpenton, MN. The class is a continuation of the experience students had last year in Studio 5, an active learning shared classroom space which is co-taught by sixth...

Restaurant Day for Math Students

Here’s a great real life way to reinforce math concepts – it’s restaurant day for math students in one fourth grade classroom! When children returned to Lee Ann Canzano’s fourth-grade classroom after lunch they wondered what happened to their...

Project Based Learning and Controlled Chaos

A veteran teacher explains the relationship between Project Based Learning and controlled chaos in the classroom If someone walked into my sophomore English classroom the week before spring break, they might have questioned my classroom management. They would have...

Combining Studies and Games

Teachers are finding that a good balance combining studies and games is a successful strategy for learning with elementary school students.  Teachers at Prospect Elementary School have discovered a way to keep children moving while they practice things like math...

Get Students More Actively Learning

How can we get students more actively learning. One school in Montana has had some very high performance scores.   Yet the Morning Star School’s principal, teachers and staff are still trying to improve.   Principal Robin Arnold said Tuesday during the School...