Education Posts

A Project-Based Learning Cheat Sheet For Authentic Learning

The function of this image is to help get your own creative juices going to decide what’s most important when designing authentic PBL units.

Psychologist: Children Need Structure More Than Warmth

A relationship without rules leads to chaos. Rules without a relationship leads to rebellion. Children need structure.

How I Connect Students Through Project-Based Learning

TeachThought StaffJul 21, 2017

Collaboration and connecting students can occur between students across the globe and does not have to be done synchronously.

CDC: White Female Teen Suicide Rate Triples

TeachThought StaffJul 13, 2017

1 in 4 females in grades 9-12 considered harming themselves in the last year. The white female teen suicide rate has…

New Children’s Book Explores Value Of Mistakes

TeachThought StaffJul 11, 2017

Every mistake is an chance to make something beautiful. This is the theme of Beautiful Oops!, a journal that teaches the…

Millionaire High School Dropout: ‘School Doesn’t Work For Anyone’

TeachThought StaffJun 27, 2017

I had these teachers that were negative. One told me to drop out and work at McDonald’s because that was all…

‘The Wire’ Crushed Public Education And We Weren’t Paying…

Terrell HeickJun 10, 2017

When your day to day existence is in question, major cultural systems are failing and public education, as a system, has…

10 Steps To A Successful School iPad Program

TeachThought StaffMay 31, 2017

Technology alone won’t have the capacity to improve education unless it’s woven into a holistic vision that meets urgent objectives.