As Prince George’s County Public Schools’ David Brown looks for opportunities to improve achievement, he’s holding teachers accountable while relying on them as "content leaders."

Missouri State University's Preschool for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing draws families from many miles away in part because it focuses intensely on early literacy for children with hearing impairments. Teachers use kinetic learning and visual aids to help students ages 3 to 5 adapt to the classroom environment, use assistive devices, and develop…

Why it's important for teachers — and their schools — to create space to acknowledge and respond to the stress of the job.

School assemblies, poster campaigns and lectures are largely ineffective at curbing bullying among students, writes clinical psychologist Jeff Nalin. In this blog post, Nalin suggests seven strategies to help educators and parents address bullying behavior, including teaching coping skills and rewarding prosocial behavior.

Teaching STEM is about trial and error -- allowing students to experiment, create and learn from mistakes, writes Hilary Ayle.

In this commentary, education reporter Christina Samuels reflects on her own experience with testing and considers the origins of the racial achievement gap. That line of inquiry led her to talk to Ronald Ferguson, an economist and director of Harvard's Achievement Gap Initiative, who is focused on early brain development as a potential solution to…

Students can continue their learning while traveling for vacation, according to Florence Monique Boulard, associate dean at James Cook University. In this commentary, she writes that traveling can help expose students to other cultures and new experiences and suggests several ways to make sure the trips are educational.

There are six strategies that can help educators support better behavior among students, according to a report from the Education Endowment Foundation. Among them are to know and understand students -- and their influences -- and adopt classroom management practices that support good behavior.

Students who practice yoga can experience benefits including improved flexibility and balance, plus reduced anxiety and better academic performance, writes Brianna Randall. Randall references an MIT study that found that sixth-grade students who participated in an eight-week mindfulness program demonstrated less stress and fewer negative emotions at its conclusion.

Task-oriented pedagogy leaves little room for deep thinking, but metacognition strategies change that. Take these steps to shift the learning culture away from compliance and toward open-ended contemplation.

Students who get regular, recommended amounts of sleep, have better academic outcomes, with sleep factoring into about one-fourth of the difference among students' grades, according to a study by researchers at MIT. The researchers found that consistency of sleep as much as a month before an exam was a major indicator.

A new book, The Joy of Movement, offers more motivation to exercise. It's not just about getting fit or looking good: Exercise can give you courage, pleasure and better friendships.