5 Aspects of the US Education System that are Going Well
As the 2021-22 school year came to a close, PowerMyLearning’s CEO & Co-Founder Elisabeth Stock...
For Students like Nathaniel
Last month, PowerMyLearning celebrated our 20th anniversary at the 2019 Innovative Learning Awards....
Promising Solutions for Family Engagement? Four experts weigh in.
Last month, I participated on a panel at the Carnegie Corporation of New York called “Promising...
A Conversation with Google’s Jaime Casap
“Just call it what it is!” Jaime Casap, the Education Evangelist at Google, does not beat around...
Hear from Jaylen, Our Student of the Year
For this month’s article, I invite you to learn about Jaylen, a sixth-grade student from South...
Data-driven instruction? These second graders say “Yes, Please!”
Envision a classroom full of second-grade students who are at the tail end of a lesson. These...
Why We Need To Invest In Teachers
The Trump administration has proposed $2.4 billion in FY2018 cuts to one of the most important...
How to Build a Strong Classroom Environment
When Mr. Freeman, a fourth grade teacher at Du Bois Integrity, began his first year of teaching...
Introducing The Rigor Project
According to the “Teachers Know Best” report from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, teachers are...
Surprises from Bloom’s “2 Sigma Problem”
I recently heard Jim Shelton, President of Chan Zuckerberg Education, speak about Benjamin Bloom’s...
Three things we’ve learned about student ownership of learning
The promise of instilling ownership of learning in students has been proffered for decades. Ask...
What America can learn from the world’s smartest schools
Since 2000, the Program for International School Assessment (PISA) has been testing high-school...