Roughly a decade ago, a coalition of industry leaders, businesses, nonprofits, and community organizations in an American city tried to pass a ballot measure for a tax increase. The tax aimed to raise ...

Academic instructors, hired for their content expertise, are rarely trained in skills like classroom facilitation or community-building. But successful collaborative learning requires a degree of ...

Physical and mental health. Economic status. ZIP code. These are just a few of the factors that impact student learning every day. For district leaders, supporting students amid these realities often ...

The above menu of classroom activities is by no means exhaustive. Over time, instructors committed to active learning tend to develop their own repertoires and variations. The key to creating active ...

Indrani Dey is a PhD student in Learning Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying under Dr. Sadhana Puntambekar. At iSAT, she works with Dr. Puntambekar to investigate how students’ ...

A new partnership provides flexible career-connected learning units designed for microschools and other emerging education models.

Nonprofits face growing pressure to do more with less: Rising demand, shrinking funding, and increasingly complex social issues often exceed the capacity—and mission—of any single organization. At the ...

Collaborative learning in college is an instructional approach where students work together in small groups to solve problems, complete tasks, or discuss concepts. It emphasizes shared responsibility, ...