It’s not unusual for kindergarten teachers to spend a chunk of their school days trying to get their young learners to stop talking. Advice on managing classroom noise is easy to find. Far rarer, ...

Picture this: A principal peers through the band room window. The band director is not at the podium conducting but silently writing in a chair in the corner. The students talk to each other for ...

Before the school year started, Farmingdale High School Principal Jed Herman worried his job would be consumed with enforcing the state’s bell-to-bell cellphone ban. "I thought I’d be more of a phone ...

When preschool teachers use students’ natural curiosity to set up activities, lessons become more meaningful and engaging.