When done right, lectures remain an invaluable tool for building student knowledge. Here’s the research on how to optimize your time in front of the class.

Middle and high school teachers can cultivate student agency to facilitate conversations about difficult subjects in history class.

This is a chance to avoid literary analysis and focus instead on helping students find poems they feel a connection to.

English language arts teachers can borrow design thinking from STEM classes to support a deep understanding of literary characters.

A number of people and events in Black history are commonly taught in schools—Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass