Academic instructors, hired for their content expertise, are rarely trained in skills like classroom facilitation or community-building. But successful collaborative learning requires a degree of ...

AASA EdLeader Promise Network helps districts transform learner profiles into classroom practice through resources like the ...

Foundations of Collaborative Community Change (FC3) offers a strengths-based, grassroots approach to community change, bringing champions from public institutions, non-profit organizations, ...

The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework recognizes the importance of interactions between the teaching, social and cognitive presences in creating positive and collaborative learning communities.

During a recent class, my freshmen and I were discussing the best ways to engage with the complex world of high school. We talked about how to juggle multiple deadlines, contact their busy and ...

Late last year, the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation published a widely noted study intended to explore what teachers want when it comes to professional development. But particularly on the important ...

As educational leaders with a combined experience of over 70 years, we have championed efforts to support collaboration for teachers while finding ourselves in a siloed and often lonely position of ...

Collaborative giving has surged over the past 10 years. Indeed, nearly half of the 300-plus collaborative funds—entities that pool or channel resources from multiple donors to nonprofits—that ...

Indrani Dey is a PhD student in Learning Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying under Dr. Sadhana Puntambekar. At iSAT, she works with Dr. Puntambekar to investigate how students’ ...

Living Learning Communities (LLCs) have long been recognized as a best practice within higher education and academia, to support student learning and to deepen belonging for residential students. LLCs ...

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 ...