Washington Township's Orchard Valley Middle School seventh-grader Jared Mitchell shows off his balloon animal talents to seventh-grader Chrystian Aquilino (left) and sixth-grader Lester McCoy.

What are you passionate about? What do you want to do more than anything in the world? Well I hope you said what you are doing right now. This is not always the case. Some people hate what they are ...

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 ...

Genius Hour isn’t new concept. Many teachers and businesses have been doing this for a while. Companies like HP and Google started “20 Time” so their staff could pursue passions projects and make ...

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 ...

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 ...