New Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels is promising changes to New York City’s controversial math reforms for middle school and high school students. The initiative, known as NYC Solves, has faced ...

An international workshop and webinar series on how leading countries are modernizing secondary math curricula. Experts will share best practices for curriculum revision, essential competencies for ...

This mini review asks how to orchestrate guidance, assessment, and student agency so that inquiry reliably yields durable understanding and inclusion, moving beyond the inquiry vs. direct instruction ...

In a lab at the Centre for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education in Africa (CEMASTEA) in Nairobi, ten Kenyan teachers recently stepped into the future of education. Over two days, they learned ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

There has been a proliferation of websites that warehouse instructional materials designed to be taught by teachers in a traditional classroom. While this new technology has revolutionized how most ...

Students in Years 1 and 2, the equivalent of kindergarten and first grade in the U.S., prepare for a math lesson at St. Clair School in Dunedin, New Zealand. Credit: Becki Moss for The Hechinger ...

In my first full year of teaching in 2010, I was coached on the merits of the “I Do, We Do, You Do” approach to math instruction, a form of direct instruction. Each lesson started with a hook to pique ...

Direct instruction or inquiry-based learning? Direct instruction is carefully sequenced, clear, and explicit. Inquiry-based learning promotes higher-level thinking and deep understanding. Research ...

Inquiry based teaching strategies are a powerful tool for educators looking to connect with their students and apply STEM principles. But when first using these strategies. some students will really ...

What if I told you that lifeguards have a new method for teaching toddlers how to swim by throwing them in the deep end of a swimming pool without supervision, in hopes that they will learn from their ...

Imagine you are a mountaineer. Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on ...