Harvard Graduate School of EducationOpinion

When Educators Lead, Their Professional Development Works Better

When Paul Tritter, Ed.M.’12, took on the inaugural role of director of professional learning for the Boston Teacher’s Union, ...

1,000 MPS teachers trained to increase literacy rates in the district

More than 1,000 MPS teachers gathered at the first literacy summit to learn tools for improving reading proficiency across ...

Tara Brach's Buddhist-inspired mindfulness practice can help you overcome stress. Here's how RAIN works

Stress can make it difficult to slow down. But Tara Brach's mindfulness practice can help you overcome stress.
Education Week

Many Teachers Are Bored in Team Meetings. Here’s How to Keep Them Engaged

MacDonald distilled three decades of teaching and coaching experience into two books— The Skillful Team Leader and ...
Education WeekOpinion

Could Your Classroom Use a Little More Fun? Start Here

Even brief group activities can help students learn each other’s names and set the tone for future collaboration at the start ...
Edutopia

Using ‘I Do, We Do, You Do’ to Teach Reading With Expression

This gradual release of responsibility routine helps students hear what fluent, expressive reading sounds like, practice with ...
The Baltimore Sun

Ravens RBs coach Eddie Faulkner is a teacher swimming ‘upstream’

This month, Ravens running backs are reading “Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen,” a 320-page book in which New York Times best-selling author Dan Heath argues that humans are ...
Edutopia

Using a Lab Classroom Approach for Professional Development

Watching a colleague implement an instructional practice with students is a highly effective way for the observers to learn it.

Cambridge’s diversity poster boy in plagiarism row

When Jason Arday became a Cambridge professor at the age of 37, he was lionised by the academic world and became a poster boy for the university’s diversity drive.