As Teens Push Away, What Can Parents Do To Support Them?
By Deborah Farmer Kris The teenage years are marked by paradoxes. Even as teens’ cognitive and problem-solving capacities are expanding, many adolescents experience declines in academic performance,...
View ArticleWhy Ninth Grade is the Pivotal Year for Dropping Out of High School
The transition from middle school to high school is a big one, perhaps bigger than appears at first blush: Not only do students’ academic workloads increase, but simultaneously, so does their...
View ArticleFrom Eighth to Ninth Grade: Programs That Support a Critical Transition
The move from middle to high school is proving to be a critical transition, one in which students must deal with great changes in academics, responsibility and social structure all at the same time....
View ArticleWhich Reading Skills are Critical to Learn in the Ninth Grade?
Many freshmen coming into one of Nashville’s top public high schools are competent and fluent readers, but have a hard time reading deeply, making ninth grade a challenging year. In general, English...
View ArticleHow Can Adults Help Students Buck the Pressure of Perfection?
Six University of Pennsylvania students committed suicide in 13 months. Tulane lost four students this past school year. In the 2009-2010 school year Cornell had six suicides. Anxiety and depression...
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Teens Show Off Engineering Mettle With Pasta Bridge Competition
Imagine having to build a bridge — a strong bridge — out of nothing but epoxy and spaghetti. Yeah, hard. Just ask one of the 160 high schoolers who recently finished Engineering Innovation, a rigorous,...
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Is School For Everyone? Some Say ‘No’
Several years ago, few people who knew Hannah Noblewolf would have thought that she would turn out to be an outgoing, articulate, self-assured young woman who has successfully completed her first year...
View ArticleHow Can Adults Support Student Success Without Stressing Them Out?
Getting into and completing college has become a very stressful proposition. Kids from low-performing schools struggle to get the honors and Advanced Placement courses to demonstrate their academic...
View ArticleTalk to Teachers: Students Share How and Why They’d Change Education
Shannon Carey has been exploring powerful writing with her class of juniors in an Oakland, California public school. To help her students see why powerful writing matters, she’s framed it as a form of...
View ArticleWhy Identity and Emotion are Central To Motivating the Teen Brain
By Emmeline Zhao For years, common experience and studies have prescribed that humans learn best in their earliest years of life – when the brain is developing at its fastest. Recently, though,...
View ArticleHarnessing the Incredible Learning Potential of the Adolescent Brain
It has become a cultural cliché that raising adolescents is the most difficult part of parenting. It’s common to joke that when kids are in their teens they are sullen, uncommunicative, more interested...
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How Engineering Class in 9th Grade Can Excite Diverse Learners
Engineering has been getting a lot of attention because of its real-world applications and clear job prospects, but learning to think like an engineer could be useful no matter what students decide to...
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How to Cultivate Student Agency in English Language Learners
Excerpted from Navigating the Common Core with English Language Learners: Developing Higher-Order Thinking Skills by Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull-Sypnieski, published by Jossey-Bass. This section is...
View Article10 Realities About Bullying at School and Online
In spite of national campaigns against bullying, including legislation in some states that punishes offenders and imposes strict reporting standards on schools, as many kids as ever report being...
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Reflecting on Adolescence: How Stories Can Inspire Teen Empathy
When Georgia Gootee examines the journals she wrote as a 15-year-old, she sympathizes with her younger flailing self. “You can read through these journals and tell that at some points I’m just so...
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How Mentors and Scholarships Help Community College Students Succeed
High school senior Sarah Goins of Louisville, Tennessee, drove in her first drag race at age 7 in a smaller version of a drag car called a junior; now, at 18, she just graduated to her own full-size...
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Beyond Sex Ed: How To Talk To Teens About Love
Love — or infatuation, at least — is part of school, whether we want it to be or not. It’s often school that gives us our first crush, our first dance-induced cold sweat, and that first bitter taste of...
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To Keep Teens Safe Online, They Need To Learn To Manage Risk
Parents of teens know how tricky it is to keep their kids physically safe while balancing their need for greater independence, but when it comes to keeping them safe online, it can be even trickier....
View ArticleEmotional Agility as a Tool to Help Teens Manage Their Feelings
Navigating the ups and downs of the teenage years has never been easy, as young adults manage a lot of changes that are hormonal, physical, social and emotional. Teens could use help during this...
View ArticleGrowing An Educator Pipeline Starts By Sparking Student Passion For Teaching
When Michael Shaner was a freshman at Smyrna High School he joined the Future Educators Association club to explore an interest in teaching. At that time, club members mostly talked about issues in...
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