At the same time, AI chatbots can potentially provide young people with an opportunity to practice and build social-emotional skills in a low-stakes environment. For example, students can rehearse ...

Leah Zitter is a technical writer who covers high tech. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology research and a master’s in philosophy and advanced logic. Going back to school is stressful for students in the ...

CINCINNATI – A study published this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found one-third of high school students experienced poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic – an ...

While it might be tempting to view “active learning” as another educational buzzword, a large body of research demonstrates that active and collaborative classrooms produce deeper and more ...

How much time should educators spend during the school day helping students develop healthy social and emotional skills? It’s an important question as school districts across the country invest more ...

The debate over online versus in-person classroom learning in K-12 education rages on, driven by concerns over student engagement, academic performance, and social-emotional development. Advocates of ...

When challenging student behavior arises, the instinct in many schools is to turn to discipline: assigning detention, suspension, or removal from class. But John Gasko, chief well-being officer at ...

Editor’s Note: This story is the first in a series looking at ways we can help our children restore, with patience and love, some of what the pandemic has taken away. I used to be a bit cynical about ...

Third-grade literacy instructor Katelyn Battinelli talks with students about their pandemic-related fears on the first day of in-person learning for five days per week at Stark Elementary School on ...

Over the past few months, we’ve all witnessed heated debates on issues both large and small play out on TV screens and at school board meetings across the country. I’m all for vibrant civic engagement ...