Art Education is often left behind in the drive to increase the amount of time students spend on academics. As a result, special programs fill in the gap in many schools and districts. And more are needed. The Wallace Foundation sponsored a three-day gathering to discuss appreciation for the arts. Here’s the report that focuses on the future.

Digital storytelling has become an important strategy for educators to use to help students improve writing and thinking skills. Here are tips that will take the process one step farther so that teachers can help students make their stories the best that they can be.

Students get it about technology. The challenge for schools is in developing a new generation of knowledgeable digital citizens who can operate in the unregulated online world.

This federally-sponsored program brings together students, teachers, scientists, and community members to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment.

Global warming, pollution, shrinking animal and plant habitats, devastating earthquakes, tsunamis and cyclones: the headlines and broadcasts warn of what appears to be a wholesale unraveling of the earth.

Today, the tools for producing excellent short films are affordable and easy to use. Those tools can empower students of almost any age to produce personal masterpieces—complete with the look and sound of Hollywood productions. It's also a snap to share the finished product on DVD, the web, and virtually anywhere else.

Students moved from manila folders to electronic portfolios and learned to reflect on what and how they had learned in the process. Each week, they conducted discussions using guiding questions.

A fundamental question for everyone involved in education is what do students really need to be learning today in order to be ready for an unpredictable future? Here are some answers.

Using notebooks and interactive whiteboards created a big change that increased students' capacity for understanding.

How do educators capture student’s interest and teach them in a way that's relevant to them in today's technology rich world?

In today’s educational climate of No Child Left Behind, classroom instruction must be correlated with local, state and sometimes national standards.

When students see first-hand what works –and especially when they see how and why things work – they draw meaning and understanding from their experiences. It is the best way to learn science and is why so much of science is taught using laboratory experiments...

Everyone has stories. Stories represent who we are, portray our life experiences, and when presented to others, help connect us to others through common shared experience. As such, telling a story is a powerful way to communicate with others. Any teacher knows that when he or she tells a story about themselves in class, every student is “dialed in,” waiting on every word. The teacher becomes more ‘real’ simply by relating a personal anecdote.

The goal of technology integration is to use technology seamlessly so that the technology itself becomes a transparent and integral tool to teach core curriculum.

One of the educators who created the Horizon Project outlines the five phases she uses to get students to the level of collaboration required for the ambitious project.

An educator talks about using the SMART Interactive Whiteboard in her 8th grade Algebra and Geometry classes.