How to Turn Your Math Classroom Into a ‘Thinking Classroom’

The researcher Peter Liljedahl evangelizes for practices that prioritize and stimulate more hard thinking in classrooms.

Integrating social and emotional learning into staff meetings fosters an environment of trust and support between administrators and teachers.

Many students struggle to master crucial skills like resiliency and problem-solving. Here’s a four-step plan for teaching these skills.

Stories can help students recall key math concepts and make the subject more relevant to them.

Used consistently, these strategies can help middle and high school teachers guide students to improve much-needed skills.

Neurodivergence is underrecognized in childhood. Teachers can use these strategies for a universal approach that supports all learners.

Making a short video can be a powerful opportunity for students to explore a reading in a different way from writing an essay.

Change is much easier when administrators lean on collective leadership and get early buy-in from key stakeholders.

After PD, teachers need a process that makes it easier to link evidence of student learning to classroom strategies.

At a primary school in the UK, both students and teachers have become more engaged and curious as a result of a shift to a fully play-based approach—and learning has become more joyful for everyone.