Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

Two kinds of schools tend to hire my services as a consultant: traditional schools taking tentative steps towards project- and competency-based learning, and special pilot programs that need to ...

Traumatic experiences can have ripple effects that permeate across many aspects of people's lives. For students, adverse childhood experiences have been shown to impact attention, memory, language ...

Danira Flores stood in front of her class at Free State High School recently, delivering a lesson in trigonometry. But it took only a moment for outside observers to notice a few things out of the ...

Lectern view of faculty center technology enhanced classroom with lecture capture capabilities. Courtesy/Sennheiser Like the corporate world and the rest of higher education, the University of Nevada, ...

A group of forth- and fifth-graders at Pinewood Preparatory School took strides to become model students and citizens by participating in a nine-week modeling class, which taught them how to excel on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alberta's government will fund complexity teams modelled after a specialized support classroom model started in Saskatchewan in ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The day is just starting at the Met School, and the entire student body is gathered for a 9 a.m. assembly. Despite the darkened room and the early hour, not a single student is ...

The term global citizenship today encompasses digital literacies, digital fluency, empathy with others beyond the immediate learning environment, and intercultural understanding that leads to global ...