Gifted Program Inspires Innovations in Teaching

In Hall County, Georgia, the gifted program inspires innovations in teaching all students. Over a decade ago, director of innovative and advanced programs for Hall County Schools Dr. Sally Krisel was then the  director of gifted education for the Georgia Department of...

Flipped Classrooms Encourage Creative Teaching

Throughout the nation, teachers and students are finding that flipped classrooms encourage creative teaching. Teachers find that they can connect students to resources and use class time to explore ideas in depth.  Also, students enjoy the flexibility of having...

Ideas to Make Classroom Life Easier

Hertz Furniture Being a teacher in today’s education system can be tough and ideas to make classroom life easier are always welcome. Kids are more challenging than ever, and more is expected of teachers now than it used to be. It can be an almost impossible...

Students Pass Positive Notes to Each Other

Passing notes in school is nothing new, but passing positive notes is helping to create a culture of resistance to bullying at one school. At D.C. Everest Middle School in Wisconsin, each student was greeted in the morning with a handwritten sticky note that contained...

Shifting Out of Low Gear Learning

Parents and teachers often talk about student challenges in similar ways and the bottom line is that there are specific strategies for shifting out of low gear learning. For example, the conversation might sound something like this at first: “He does not...