Less than one year ago, we launched a new initiative in teacher professional development: The Modern Classrooms Project. As teachers at a Title I high school in the District of Columbia, we had ...

This summer we brought eight teachers, who teach eight different courses, together for a week of self-directed professional development (PD). Would they survive to tell the tale? For educators like us ...

Want to hear the full panel? Check out the latest episode of the EdSurge On Air podcast here. The classroom. Since the 1950s, the setup of your average second, sixth or tenth grade classroom hasn’t ...

Working in the education design space collectively for 26 years, we understand students and teachers need environments to support learning. Classrooms should be designed for listening and engagement; ...

That student comment was one of many positive reviews of Del Mar Union School District’s new modern classroom prototypes. Embracing an open floor plan design, the entire room is used for learning with ...

Students engage in discussion using the white boards provided in the active learning classroom. This allows them to effectively share ideas with each other and the teacher. (Photo courtesy of Julia ...

The aim of technology may be to make processes more efficient and to expand our horizons, but unless used appropriately, it can also make life unnecessarily complicated. In the classroom, teachers are ...

Evolution biased the human mind to attend to some types of information over others—often the exact opposite of what teachers wish children would learn As children settle into their classrooms for the ...