Imagine a school day in which students spend a chunk of time studying and pursuing a topic or project they’re passionate about. That’s the premise of “genius hour,” a growing trend in which teachers ...

“It bothers me that I am not learning things in school that will help me become what I want to be.” This is the most sobering and common response to one of three questions I ask my students before we ...

Williams Ledger Elementary School second-grader Janell Gray watches intently as the glass blower reaches inside the glass furnace to gather a layer of melted, clear glass. He then rolls the hot glass ...

Imagine being assigned a project at school with but one prerequisite: You must feel unequivocally,unrelentingly passionate about the subject at hand. That’s the idea behind “Genius Hour,” a pilot ...

DERRY — At the start of the school year, Ernest P. Barka Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Emily Burns knocked on her principal’s door with an idea. That idea, called Genius Hour, was to set aside ...

Students at Wenonah Elementary are wrapping up another successful year of their year-long Genius Hour initiative, which included exploration, creativity, hands-on learning and community collaboration.

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Seventh and eighth graders at Tioga Junior High School spent the last three months researching things like the nation's opioid crisis, the link between football and CTE and how society can help ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How can I implement a “Genius Hour” with my students? Much lip service is given to the ideas of student choice, project- and problem-based learning, and intrinsic ...