Enthusiastic children sat in rows chattering in an excited buzz as the start of the Genius Hour drew near. This afternoon Birch Elementary held its fourth annual Genius Hour program. Genius Hour is a ...

“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 ...

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.

(TNS) — A trip to Egypt and tour of Ramesses VI's tomb was on the itinerary for Hedges Elementary third-graders in Brooke Samson's class Thursday. "Man, I always forget parent permission slips," ...

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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 is a time in our school when you can build, make and research anything you want to do. I think everyone would love Genius Hour because you don't have a limited choice, you can chose ...

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 ...

After she retired, former Hamilton Schools employee Susan Damm decided the best way to cap off three decades of teaching was to do some more teaching. A past winner of the teacher of the year award at ...

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 ...

Twelve-year-old Dante Jackson of Lenexa loves baseball and is a big fan of the Kansas City Royals. So when it came time for the sixth-grader from Rosehill Elementary School in the Shawnee Mission ...