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New Learning: Characteristics Of An Innovative Classroom

Terry Heick Dec 3, 2025

From content to thought, linear learning to spiral learning, and grading to micrograding, here are possible characteristics of an innovative classroom.

Innovation Often Means Teaching Against The Grain

TeachThought Staff Nov 18, 2025

The feeling that I get observing students learning for themselves and assuming ownership of their experience is pure joy.

Teaching Disruptively

Terry Heick Aug 2, 2025

Teaching disruptively helps create learners who ask the right question at the right time for reasons that matter to them.

The Most Dangerous Phrase In Education

Terry Heick Sep 26, 2024

“We’ve always done it this way” is one of the most dangerous phrases we can use—and this danger extends to education, as well.

When Schools And Parents Don’t Talk

Terry Heick Jun 6, 2024

Communities don’t understand teaching and learning? Education doesn’t know what communities really need? This seems like an opportunity.

What Students Will Learn: 8 Responsive Content Areas Of…

Terry Heick May 29, 2024

This doesn’t mean we won’t teach math or reading in the future. However, we might reframe what we teach and how and…

Why Education Needs More Than Reform

Terry Heick Nov 8, 2023

Disruption in general is about unsettling, often thought of in terms of chaos. Disruptive collaboration is working together to force change.

Where’s The Innovation In Education Coming From?

Terry Heick Oct 4, 2023

Where is the innovation in education coming from? What are its current levels of innovation? What might possibly disrupt it in the…